My first attempt in developing this sketch into a drawing resulted in an oil pastel painting. I liked the image, but I wanted to try it out in different media to work toward something that felt more like my internal vision.
I painted archival tissue paper with watered down acrylic paint (got this idea from a Carrie Burns Brown DVD). Then I tore and layered the paper over a sketch of the penguins. My favorite part of the work is their little head feathers. I also like how their beaks developed.
This process was rather tedious,took lots of scraps of paper, and almost a full ounce of gel medium to glue all the little bits to the watercolor paper substrate. The yellow sky is acrylic paint onto the paper. The finished size is approximately 9" x 12".
I also took some photos of the work in progress to share.
