I finished my final emu for a tryptich. They are all scratchboard and all completed almost 100% with a fibreglass brush, and all done on black boards. They will also all be framed together. I had the plan that the one on the left would look feminine, the one on the right masculine (a ladies man as a friend says) and the one in the middle could be either/or. I also wanted the one in the middle to dominate and the others to direct the viewers attention to the middle.

Here’s the final one and then the tryptich below

Emus are amazing birds. They seem so inquisitive, come right up to you and always look like they are going to peck your eyes out. I solve this by hiding behind a camera lens, but then I’m worried about having a bill for hundreds of dollars to fix my lens. Anyway, it’s never happened yet but it is very unnerving when that large beak and huge eye is only a few inches away from your own face and staring straight at you. This is another small scratchboard to go with a previous one to eventually be a tryptich like below.

Recently I organised a large swap of scratchboard art. Twenty artists from the WetCanvas forum all got paired up and told each other what they want to receive. I asked for a primate and got a lovely colobus monkey, and I was asked for something equine so I came up with this horse. Scratchboard coloured with watercolours on the horse and oils on the sky and bushes. Just a small piece at 5×7

First stage

Second stage

Final stage