Abby Diamond

Fig 1(Abby Diamond, art.britishbirdlovers.co.uk)

 Fig 2(Abby Diamond, art.britishbirdlovers.co.uk)

All of Abby's work is visually stimulating with her variety of colours, sometimes similar tones of the same colour portrayed almost violently(possibly related to her passion for hardcore and punk music as suggested on her deviantart profile http://finchfight.deviantart.com/ ) or completely different colours that are not aloud to merge together, creating these stunning images, however my favorite part of her work is the etch work, the lines are of different thicknesses, some necessary lines to show detail but a lot of exaggerated lines which actually act like an illusion to the eyes giving the sense of movement which is very pretty indeed.

 Fig 3(Abby Diamond, deviantart.com)

I do thoughroughly enjoy the white space in her bird drawings but her land mammal artwork seems to somewhat lack this,which although it is a shame they are still stunning images, Fig 3 is a 'wip' or work in progress so has white parts still in, but a lot thicker and more vibrant colour is at work here.

Her technique is to use waterproof ink, then a mixture of markers and watercolour gives the colour its vibrancy.