I found kinship with this hissy goose on an angry day I was having, so I decided to paint it out. I couldn’t quite believe how many ‘teeth’ they have, even along the tongue which is fun and terrifying.
I have less of an attention span of a goose at times, so I had forgotten how exactly to work on this interesting plastic paper so had to learn all over again.
Firstly I used a ball point pen to draw the image out, which I then went over with a Staedtler permanent Lumocolour pen to go over those lines. I then used Indian ink to flesh out the drawing a little more and give the goose some more character.
After the Yupo was dry I used watercolour for the eyes and the beak, then used alcohol inks for the rest of the image, using isopropyl alcohol to split the inks and clean spirit to completely wipe colour off the paper entirely.
I used a 4B pencil to help me shade in a few areas and to create some scratchiness and after it was all dry went in with white pigment and white spirit to add some details and contrast.