WIP: Catch Up! Mallard Ducklings. Scratchboard (etching on Claybord Black), 11 x 4.5 in. Copyright 2007, Tania Nault.
Here’s the newest thing on my “easel.” It’s a board I’m doing for the “Reflections of Nature Show” with the Saskatchewn Wildlife Art Association. The show has a “miniatures” category for works under 54 square inches, which they use as a fund raiser, and I thought I’d enter something in that category just for the fun of it. I realise this work is not a true miniature in the strictist sense of the word, but it meets the size guidelines for this show, so that’s what I’m working with.
I’m recyling an idea from my days as a watercolour painter (in the late 1990′s) and I’m liking this smaller, more compact, close-up view a lot more than the old watercolour. I think the ducklings are approximately life size in this work and they’re cute little beggars, even if I must say so myself.
