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May
15
After reaching a bit of standstill on Monday, I carried on by starting with the eye on the second Jack Russell . Basti is much darker, has slightly bigger and darker eyes as well as a straight ear.
For the eye I sketched it out with a 2B, drew the pupil in using a 5B and I went from there. When drawing eyes I find it very important to keep picturing them in my mind (how I remember them)as opposed to what I see in the reference photograph. It keeps them real. This true for every feature but just a tad more so for eyes: they make or break a portrait!
The pencil used for the darker areas was my clutch filled with Cretacolor 3B. I only let go of it in order to pick up my 2B to draw the darker shading of the tongue.
At the end of this phase I have probably clocked up another 12 hours (give or take a few minutes!)
The final stretch is just around the corner…will try and get it posted for the week-end.
Thanks for watching,
p.s: questions and queries are of course very welcome, I realise I may not be too clear sometimes…
©Copyright 2008 by Sheona Hamilton Grant. See original post here.
May
15
The Horse Gift Mural
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Le Cadeau du Cheval “The Horse Gift” Mural is a collaborative mural project in which individual artists each paint a panel from a large mother image. I am thrilled to be a part of a project like this, and I’ll start posting my progress today.
I was able to choose which panels I preferred. Of my top three choices, it seems that I got my first choice. Some panels were fairly monochromatic, some had lots of pinks and purples, and some had definite shapes and edges. I wanted to challenge myself with a panel that had definitive shapes, and it certainly is a challenge to find an image that will maintain the values and contrast in the right places. I chose the panel I did because I immediately saw something in the image. Of course when I received the actual panel in the mail, I decided to do something entirely different.
Above is the original panel I recieved. At first all I could see was a big white horse rear-end in the lower right corner. And I thought of perhaps an appaloosa or pinto horse, rear view, looking to the left. But the shape in the middle was too rounded and big to be the right proportion for that idea, so I worked out a cluster of heads that work themselves into the shapes.
I think I’m ready to start painting. I’ll post the progress as it goes along.
To see the whole Cadeau du Cheval mural in progress, go to: http://muralmosaic.com/Cadeau.html
To see other mural mosaics, http://muralmosaic.com/
©Copyright 2008 by Alecia Underhill. See original post here.
May
15
Le Cadeau du Cheval, the Horse Gift: Here is my foal with his mama. It is just sketched in right now and a little will be done each day until I get it the way I want it. They have started to put finished panels on the mural site, so if you want to see it as it develops, go here http://www.muralmosaic.com/Cadeau.html
I was able to get my commission of Gus done in time for the buyer to unveil it to her parents for their anniversary. Gus is their baby, their ‘fur’baby, and they love him to death. If you would like to see Gus done, click here http://www.sues-art.com/wip.html and scroll down.
©Copyright 2008 by Sue E. Kroll. See original post here.
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