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Friday, September 23, 2011

Beginner's Mind and Conventional Wisdom


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"Beginner's Mind and Conventional Wisdom Having a Chat"
Ink and watercolor on 5x7 cold press 140# paper.
Fantasy genre. 

I started out this painting in acrylics, but those birds wouldn't fly, so I redid it in ink and watercolor and it worked out to my satisfaction. From now on I'm asking the painting what medium it wants to be done in (I am serious). 

I used a halfway dried up black Pitt pen to ink it. Pitt pens are archival and have India ink and can be used all the way until the ink no longer runs. When it's halfway dried up, it makes this very soft line like a pencil line, especially on a toothy paper. You can even do gray, subtle shading with a halfway dried marker pen.

Can you guess which bird is which?