Day 16: Whale Shark
This didn’t entirely turn out in the way that I envisioned… But oh well. I want to practice doing underwater scenes more… I think this is okay, but I reckon I would need to practice this a lot more to make it better.
Admittedly, I added the white spots to the whale shark digitally using Procreate. I didn’t know how else to make the spots stand out, and I wanted some practice runs first. It’s safer to do this digitally!
Day 17: White breasted kingfisher
This is a white breasted kingfisher, another lovely tropical bird that I used to see frequently whenever I left the house growing up in Singapore.
Nature – especially birds and animals – was such a core part of my childhood, and I love that it was.
As a collage, I’m actually quite happy with how this turned out – so far the birds I’ve made haven’t been fantastic, but this went better.
Day 18: Water Lillies and Lilly Pads
I had painted papers for this collage. But I didn’t like them… and I didn’t want to paint more, so I used what I had already… That’s why the composition is wonky, but I don’t mind.
I’m still learning. I really like the subject matter for this one – inspired by a photo I took at the Freiburg botanical gardens some years ago. Water Lillies and Lilly pads – just beautiful.
I really liked making the Lillies for this one. It was a new challenge, and again something different.
Day 19: Lady bug and mushrooms
I struggled with this one again… I had a hard time with the colours and the shapes… I don’t really feel like it worked overall, but I told myself I had to keep going. So in the end I have something… that can be improved upon!
Day 20: Butterfly on cornflower
I took this photo out in the fields (there are a lot of fields around here) and definitely wanted to try and collage it. So far I’ve been having trouble with things that are white or light grey… But I think overall this collage turned out nicely.
I tried to put some texture in the background with some differently shaped cut outs of fern-type leaves… of sorts. I think it turned out quite well.
Week 4 is over – for next week, I want to start trying a bit more with textures, I think. I’m surprised I’ve stuck with it for this long, but I’m so glad I have!
