Detlef Jumpertz

Medium: Colour Pencil/Graphite
Size: 360 mm x 530 mm

The weather around these parts remains atrocious - wet, windy, wild, and cold. The only good thing is its perfect staying indoors weather and the chance to keep plugging away on this drawing. I've started to work on the wings. I need some more form, structure and detail such as feathers on the back wing in particular. That will hopefully enable me to re-evaluate the body, back and spine of the golden bosun bird. and the colour value on the back wing, so I can get the correct back wing pose/perspective. I got to a stage where I had added feathers to at least get to the wing joint today, anything more and I'd probably lose some patience as I could feel fatigue setting in, and the natural light deteriorating rapidly. Still, I wanted some structure on that foreshortened front wing before I pack it in for the day, so I partially completed that, even if only to allow me to re-assess the whole composition in the morning.