Water color Bird

This is my second bird with pen and watercolour. I feel it was better before I coloured it. But trying some more today and trying to get better.
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Small works

These two are really small. They are 6"x 8.5". They are crayons, black India ink and little watercolours. I love doing it the fast and furious way. I want to post more from the work I did before. All my rooster fight series is using these minimalistic tools. Crayons belonged to my daughter. Soon to be a teenager, even she has out grown them. ( I don't think one should outgrow them. But this is what happens.) I use black India ink in different dilutions. The paper I used was local 100% rags handmade paper. Sometimes the paper had its own mind and did not behave. But that gave me different effects than intended and I liked that too because I was not too fanatic about the overall outcome. The rooster series was an experimentation. Hence it was fun.

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Rooster Fights Once Again

"A man sees two beautiful roosters fighting each other in the jungle. They are probably fighting for a female or it is just a friendly fight. He is fascinated and catches them, gets them home. He starts teaching them more fierce fighting. He charges money from people to watch these cock-fights. Now the roosters are fighting more fiercely, almost unto the death but it is not for fun anymore and it is not for a female. They don't know what it is for anymore. But the fight must go on."

All mixed media on paper 21"x 29"

Teaching myself to watercolour

I am planning to do watercolours and I have not been very familiar with the medium. I think I will do one experiment everyday and post it here. So pl be there to view, comment and encourage. Today is my first.
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This is on handmade paper. 11" x11". Colours are more deep and the photo is not doing it a justice. 

I will have to learn to take better snaps.