Thursday 6 August 2009

Golden Eagle study complete.


Apologies for the quality of my photograph,there's quite a lot of glare to deal with here from the graphite.I'll post a decent scan on here once ive had it done.Well i finally finished it after a mornings flurry of activity in the studio and i'm very happy with the result.I absolutely love the noble,fearless nature of the golden eagle and i think ive managed to capture that in this study.And so with job done i'm going to take a day or two off and if the weather holds get down to the hamble river and titchfield haven reserve armed with camera,bins and sketch pad to see what i can find before commencing preparatory work for my next piece which is an unusual one these days for me, a dog portrait.i was asked by an old friend if i could do a portrait of his partners old labrador that passed away recently from some supplied photo's,and so i'll do my best as i know it was a well loved dog.

5 comments:

Wendy Mould AFCA said...

I love your eagle. We see lots of bald eagles in our area and I love to draw them, they are such beautiful and powerful birds.

Unknown said...

thanks wendy and welcome to my blog.i think all eagles have a majestic quality about them,that draws us to them time and again.

Erik van Elven said...

Great expression and beautiful details. Looking forward to the dog portrait.

Unknown said...

hi erik and thanks,hopefully i'll be posting the start of the dog portrait very soon.

Unknown said...

Beautiful job Clive. I see an abundance of patience in this piece.

Super job... love it.