From the gallery of the Mammals room in the Blue Zone of the Natural History Museum, you can clearly see the dust on the Right Whale skeleton. I drew the front view twice: with grainy coloured pencil, and chunky graphite stick - both watersoluble, but I didn't try out the waterbrush ...
On to the side view - I was curious about those floating bones -
The heart-shaped bone is the breastbone (sternum), but the others? One day I'll find out ... it's fascinating that whales developed from a land mammal, some 50 million years ago, and still have vestigial leg bones.
The "nose" - an extension of the skull - is called the rostrum, and the
baleen plates go into the cavity above the lower jaw.
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| HB pencil; coffee wash added later |
Apologies for the strange lighting effects on some of the next pix - cafe tables with dim light or spotlights are not ideal for photography.
Janet K captured birds -
Carol zoomed in on architectural details -
Judith found lovely feathers on the Victoria Crowned Pigeon -
Joyce was among the colourful minerals -
Janet B found an unlikely pairing in the Mammals room -
Mags was looking for pleiosaurs -
Extracurricularly ... Janet B had been drawing in a faraway museum last week -
... this led to "homework" - draw "a creature" - from life or from a museum or from a photograph.
Mags had been up north on a retreat, developing surreal collage and mark-making in piano-hinge books, among other activities ...
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