Pink in July (ink paintings)

I guess the pink tones have creeped into the recent paintings because the whole world has been so fluffy recently. This week has been weirdly productive though! And it is caused by one thing only – the cool air arrived from Norway and it is giving us a week long break from the cute century record breaking heat wave. Trying to get as much painting time in before the next heat wave starts. I can’t believe that you southerners have to deal with this every year! I have no idea how you manage.

Ink painting: https://www.etsy.com/listing/1041820188
Painting thumbnails. This is not interactive, these are just really tiny images! Really sorry! Link goes to Etsy.

Splatter raven ink painting

Black sumi ink painting raven by 5erg
Black sumi ink painting raven by 5erg, painting progress photo
Black sumi ink painting raven by 5erg
Ink painting 22 x 48 inches. (Sold)

This is inktober and where is the ink! Still inside the pot! NO! This is wrong. So here we go, lets free the ink! Maybe it will turn into a raven.

Some of the raven painting are available here in the art shop.

Ink painting – red and black grim reaper

This is an ink painting on a canvas sheet, 8×11 https://www.etsy.com/listing/761615276/grim-reaper-angel-of-death-original-ink

ink painting by 5erg grim reaper drawing raven painting black ink red ink

Hello autumn storms (and raven ink painting)

Trying to capture storm and movement with ink, I feel like this is what ink is made for!

Link to etsy: https://www.etsy.com/listing/547285781

flying raven ink painting on canvas by silja erg 5erg black and white ink art

Abstract raven paintings (Ink art)

My eye started twitching from joy, I saw a jackdaw looking for food and it found a bug, picked it up and went to a nearby puddle to wash it before eating. What a neat little dinosaur.

Had some fun too,  painting smoky ravens is always a great feeling. Splash splash! I added four new artworks on paper.

Get some ink and get to painting!

 

black ink raven art painting art paint splatter flowing watercolor art birds crows
Raven painting art, abstract ink drawing. Size: 8×11 inches, A4 Link: https://www.etsy.com/5erg/listing/710677030

black ink raven art painting art paint splatter flowing watercolor art birds crows
Raven painting art, abstract ink drawing. Size: 8×11 inches, A4 Link: https://www.etsy.com/5erg/listing/710677222

black ink raven art painting art paint splatter flowing watercolor art birds crows
Raven painting art, abstract ink drawing. Size: 8×11 inches, A4 Link: https://www.etsy.com/5erg/listing/724536733

black ink raven art painting art paint splatter flowing watercolor art birds crows
Raven painting art, abstract ink drawing. Size: 8×11 inches, A4 Link: https://www.etsy.com/5erg/listing/710676872

Raven artwork

Lets have a special day for the ravens and crows.

 Another thing, no need to get too specific about the species, if you’re creating abstract artwork , but a few people will certainly point out that your demon raven isn’t genetically appropriate, so if you want to, you can be prepared then start with checking out this chart of comparison. You’ve probably never seen a raven if you don’t get out in the forests and parks but you have seen a ton of crows and jackdaws everywhere. If you want to see a raven, you need to go out into the forest and walk around for ten years and get lucky to see a huge black solo bird flying away, trying to avoid you.

Source: http://www.ohiobirdsanctuary.com/blog/2017/06/21/hey-did-you-know

Pildiotsingu raven crow difference tulemus
Source: http://highlineonline.ca/whats-the-difference-between-a-raven-and-a-crow/ 

After your lesson about the shapes and characters of ravens and crows and adding raven expert in your CV – if you’d like to draw one, you could continue to select only one aspect you like about them today. For example, I think the thing to notice about drawing these lovely birds is that they are very spikey in general,  their bones are hollow and they are like a heap of needles. This is the general feel I’m trying to capture on the first raven/crow paintings below. It’s easier to concentrate on one aspect of the birds and then create the entire artwork around only one characteristic. For example, if you’re fascinated by the beautiful black feathers, then maybe put all your effort into drawing the part of the blue-teal-black shimmer on the feathers; maybe if you’re fascinated by the character of these smart birds, you can forget about the other details and concentrate on the eyes or a close up portrait and finally, maybe if you’re fascinated with the flight motion, forgot about all the details, and concentrate on creating paintings that have some motion in them.

Here are some examples of paintings and drawings I’ve created recently, to illustrate how to concentrate on only one aspect of the subject, decide what you’re noticing today and create your entire image around only that one aspect and forget about everything else for that day.

Paintings via www.5erg.etsy.com

The needle-pile aspect of birds, the interesting macro structure:

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The talonds of birds remind the time they were still dinosaurs:talons raven painting crow painting ink art abstract art

 

The way the birds fly in flocks in such huge numbers, it looks like a new and bigger creature:

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Paintings about the motion of flying:

abstract crow painting sumi ink painting bird art

2017-07-22 (14)

 

The dramatic view of a bird flying in the rain:

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