Quebec has a rich Native American community, from the Shawnee who helped Pre-Canadians fight Americans during the war of 1812 to the Inuit (Americans might still call them Eskimos) who manage to live in the very cold northern parts of Quebec.
Our Musée de la Civilisation has a large permanent exhibit dedicated to Native American history and art. This is a beautiful piece of wood and soapstone carving. It’s about two feet tall and the soapstone face has a long tail on it that allows it to sit in the hollow of the tree trunk. It’s quite stunning and I didn’t do it justice.
Done in a Stillman & Birn Zeta (6×9) with a Pilot 78G, followed with Albrecht-Durer watercolor pencils and a waterbrush.
A beautiful rendering, Larry, and nice use of water-soluble colored pencils. It looks almost like watercolor, but with more texture.
The Albrecht-Durer watercolor pencils provide a very flexible medium. They literally can be used like watercolors as you can completely eliminate the lines made on the paper. You can even ‘lick’ color off them with a waterbrush and mix on a palette if you want. At the same time, it’s very easy to localize lines or narrow bands of color. I just played a bit to reproduce some of the ‘spots’ in the wood as well as the color shifts. Glad you like it as it was mostly an experiment for me.
Cheers — Larry
WOW. What magnificent works of art! I mean that carving, and your sketch. Fabulous, Larry!
The carving is, indeed, pretty special. As I said, I didn’t do it justice.
Cheers — Larry