Shoveler at the Shinobazu Pond. This pond with lotuses is in the middle of Tokyo but always has several kinds of ducks in winter and we can see them right in front of us.
It was very difficult to paint this scenery with many dead lotus stems and leaves, ducks in the water. The more I worked on the more it got muddy!
There is someone feeding sparrows regularly by the pond. So sparrows (I found that quite a lot of them were young one) were very tame. This one came near me as close as 30-50 cm as I was sitting quietly and drawing ducks.
Pintail is one of the commonest ducks in winter here.
In the late afternoon, I went in two museums to see the special exhibition of Turner and the prints of Munch. The Turner was fantastic! There were a lot of sketches (including some in his sketchbooks) and colour studies as well as finished paintings. I love looking at those unfinished works or study works because I feel that I could somehow see the secret of making the amazing pieces. And a lot of subjects he drew were familiar British sceneries and those in Venice. Oh, how I miss those beautiful places!
The small exhibition of Munch's prints was also interesting. There was a series of prints from his story Alpha & Omega inspired from the story of Adam and Eve. His strong lines and posture of people are so beautiful! I learned that Gil Shohat made an opera out of the series in Hebrew. Interesting!
不忍池に行かれたんですね。こちらもちょっと渡良瀬を覗いてきました。ハイチュウはやっぱり夕方ですね。
ReplyDelete御茶ノ水の大学病院に年に一度通院していまして、
ReplyDelete5年ほど前に初めて不忍池に立ち寄り、
ユリカモメやらオナガガモやらが
あまりに近くで見られることに感激したのですが、
あれも餌付けのせいかと思えばちょっと複雑です。
なんと！1日違いで(15日)私も上野に
ReplyDeleteスケッチに行っていたんですよ。
なんとしてもタテガミオオカミを描いて
みたかったのですが、囲いが掛けられて、
よく観れなくなったのですよね‥
ガッカリしていたら、すぐ近くにアカカワ
イノシシが新しく入ったようで、これが、
なかなかツボにはまりました。
ヒヨ吉さん、
ReplyDelete想像よりカモは少なかったのですが、やはり目の前にいるので、スケッチはしやすいです。スズメが人慣れしていて、肉眼で絵が描けてしまうのにびっくりでした。
瑞閏さん、
最近はカモに餌をやらないというのを徹底しているようでした。それでも、警備の人の目を盗んでパンなどをまいている人はいて、鳥も警戒せずに近づいて来ますが。
あしながさん、
実をいえば、そんなにすぐにブログをアップしているわけではないのですが・・・（笑）
相変わらずあちこちの動物園でスケッチされているのですね！