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Portraiture

This is my new Ferret Misha, This is a learning curve for me, I want a natural portrait in her normal environment, the background is messy but I do not think it detracts from image, Misha is the centre of attention, she is in her own room with her boxes and toys around her causing trouble as usual. So what is around an individual can say alot about the character of the sitter.

This physiology does not work necessarily with a formal portrait. If I wanted to do a formal photograph of Misha, I need a dropping background cloth and a few toys, this would be the usual way to create this but we are talking about an animal that does not know you want her to stay still and pose. Well saying that maybe she does know and is just bloody minded:-) 

                                   

This is a lovely image and I have to be honest and say it way luck and that is another thing luck has alot to do with most things and photographing small fast animals must fall in this category. 

Creating the Mood

I was wondering the other day, what to put on iTunes today while I'm working would you not think your favorite music or sounds would work! Am afraid I can't draw to Janis Joplin or Meatloaf for that matter it seems I create the mood even before I sit down to draw or paint or photograph. I subconsciously create my environment before starting and I only found out when I put Summertime by Janis on and found myself listening instead of drawing!!!!


I seem to do well listening to Clanadonia, bagpipes and drums. Calamity Jane on DVD does well. Also Red hot chili Pipers again bagpipes and drums there's a theme going on here me thinks! It does not seem to matter what kind of drawing it is, maybe my mood is what I take into account, as, this seems to be a subconscious act at this time while writing I listening to Enter the Haggis's Star of the County Down. 

I have just finished a painting of Hunter the Cairn Terrier and he was very hard to do so many colours in his coat and getting a true representation was difficult, I think more so as I tried to change my listening music, and so it took longer to finish than it would have!