I know it’s been a while, but I’m going to blame computer error (yes, that sounds ever so much better than user error…) but I have an update (well, I have several updates, actually, but I’m going to piece them out over the next few days).
Prairie Gold, Work in Progress. Scratchboard, 10 x 8 in. Copyright 2007, Tania Nault.
I’ve got all the scratching done on this I’m gonna do before I add colour. And yes, in case you’re wondering, I did scratch around all the musical notes, etc. for the music to “Oh Holy Night.” I had played around with some ideas for a background, but in the end, decided to leave it as it – after all, this is something of an allegorical work – the elements are stand-ins for other things.
I’m a little worried about adding colour to this one: all my photo references of American Goldfinches (well, at least the males in their breeding plumage) show very bright little birds. Like lemons with barcode stickers attached to them. What I’m wondering is if against that black background it might end up looking unnaturally bright? Yes, in a completely contrived set up, with the bird and the book actually symbolising something else entirely, I’m worried that the bird’s colour might look unnatural. That’d actually be funny right now if it wasn’t so important to me that this looked good.
