We’re Going To The Zoo Zoo Zoo

And here’s my second of the day.

The big mistake I made on this one was to paint over everything with watercolour ground.  It ruined the sky behind those mountains: that sky and those mountains were a tuning point for me in my artistic journey.  The first good piece of art I’d ever done and I had to go and ruin it.  The watercolour ground was dragging over green colours from elsewhere, so I had to paint over the sky with more blue, which I’ve done and it looks pretty bad.

There are some good bits of composition here though.  I liked the way the leg above the foot lines up with a line in the bit of tree just above it, so kept that.  Then I noticed that the bottom left triangle in the mountains was pointing towards the elephant, so I trimmed down a green trapezium into a parallelogram for an arm and cut another piece of paper into a hand shape.

I also like how I’ve ended up with two letter is with dots above them.  These could be interpreted not just as letters but also as people.  In fact they look more like people every time I look at this one.

So, yeah, not bad.