Punky Sketches

[Punk-A-Cat]

Blatant playing here.. I needed to prove to myself I could still do this, so one comfort zone piece, plus playing with food colouring - using it in the place of watercolour inks. It's apparently light fast (idea is from a podcast "make it then tell everyone" brand is Queens - other brands will fade) It's /much/ brighter than my watercolours - which are low pigment due to being cheap, so the food colouring is basically perfect for getting the brighter hues. The finish isn't perfect - the coloured pencils layered over started to lift the paper (cheap paper, see a trend here :D )

Chose a bird because my best mate loves birds, and has basically been my sounding board while I sorted my head out, so this was kinda a thank you for the support.

Any critiques or suggestions would be cool, the background wasn't meant to be quite so in your face - the rock salt concentrated the colour instead of sucking it out like it does with watercolour, so I’m aware of that, but the colour wouldn't lift up, so stuck with it.