Medium: Colour Pencil/Graphite
Size: 420 mm x 590 mm
Looks like full and uninterrupted transmission has resumed. There's been some progress on this drawing, hopefully it'll be complete....sometime. It's been very time consuming effort thus far for very little to show, but it is beginning to take shape now. As usual lots of fiddly work still to happen before it's completed.
Medium: Colour Pencil/Graphite
Size: 420 mm x 590 mm
I'm back to drawing fish - for the time being I'm giving the birds a rest. It was hard deciding which fish to choose, and for whatever reason I have decided to draw a Maori Wrasse, aka Napoleon Fish, aka Humphead.
The males can reach 2m in length, while females rarely exceed about 1m. The Humphead has thick, fleshy lips and a hump that forms on its head above the eyes, becoming more prominent as the fish ages. The colour range is from a bright electric blue to green, a purplish blue, or a relatively dull blue/green.
I think it's both beautiful and ugly at the same time, a kind of cute pig of the piscatorial world. Perhaps that bizarre combination of attributes is what attracted me to it the first place.
Medium: Colour Pencil/Graphite
Size: 360 mm x 530 mm
At long last this drawing is finished. It seems to have taken an eternity. The last few days have been sweltering, so after doing odd jobs this morning, not much left to do but to complete this drawing. All in all I'm quite happy with it. I guess the unanswered question is which bird is the odd man out?