Back again this week with a pencil crayon drawing of two Warbling White-eyes, on the standard mixed media card.
Considering the fact I use pencil crayons rather often, I chose to make the composition slightly more difficult and used a reference with two birds. The birds in question are Warbling White-eyes, also known as Japanese White-eyes. I’ve enjoyed both weeks now listening to the bird call, and my cat seems to enjoy it too. It is native to Asia and travels in vocal flocks through forests, urban areas, and farmland. They are fairly common birds, not endangered in the slightest, and were introduced to control bug populations in Hawaii in the 1920s. They are omnivorous and love fruit, are very social, and can live to be 5 years old.
Prismacolours! My preferred type of pencil crayon. My favourite colour is green, and I love being able to find references and animals/birds where I get to employ the best Prismacolor of all time, lime peel. They blend beautifully, although I didn’t find myself blending at all, but layering colours instead. They can be applied very softly and I find them much easier to use than something like a crayola. I was happy to see that they have full packs of them to use at the school I have been at for my link to practice, as it is nice to have access to higher-quality supplies at the high school level. While these pencils aren’t necessarily cheap, I like that you can buy one at a time, as I go through them at different rates and you don’t have to sink too much into it initially while trying them out. Overall, I find their texture satisfying, and I love the ease of bringing pencil crayons out into the world with me. They often come camping or travelling as it isn’t such a messy endeavour.
This card is for my family friend Hallie, who has just started University in Vancouver at Emily Carr. I’d like to send her something as this is her first time living away from home and I am thinking of her often as I’m excited for her. I enjoyed receiving mail when I first moved out from her and her younger sister, and I’m sure it can’t hurt to send her some in return give or take seven years later.
Photo by Kawasaki Toshihiro on Unsplash
Photo by Kawasaki Toshihiro on Unsplash
