Just finished this one and its friend today. I've been working on birds quite a bit lately. This one focuses on the negative space. My first step was to paint the cool background, blues, teals, actually a lot of minor colors behind that, and some golds.
After that, I laid down the birds on wires with charcoal, and began carefully painting the negative space AROUND the birds. These were inspired by Picasso's Black and White exhibit at the MFAH last year. I went down to see it, not all that excited, but feeling obliged. I felt that since it was a black and white exhibig, it would be small works on paper, mostly sketches and a lot of black paint on white paper.
I could not have been more wrong! His paintings were exceedingly beautiful and engrossing. Most of them had rich, colorful backgrounds into which he carved a design, or painted the negative space, as I did with this birds painting. My favorites were the ones he did with light paint, almost white, but still filled with color, as I did above. I think it's really effective. Thanks, Pablo!
I actually had an engagement that afternoon, and was going to pop into the Picasso exhibit, check it out for a couple hours and then go. Once I got in there, all else was wiped from my mind. I staggered out MUCH later... LONG after my engagement was completely over!
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