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| Unfinished Current Projects | |||
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"Dreaming Mask 4" Acrylic Ink on White Claybord Airbrush, Sable Brush, and Technical Pen 12-31-2007: I put this aside in order to draw "Water Lillies". The airbrush was being difficult and I ended up over-spraying the background clouds and blue sky. The substrate is claybord, so I can grit blast these two areas and shift their values back. The black shadow on the bottom of the thunderhead will blend into an image of the cosmos with a spiral galaxy on the right, planets and comets at left, and a nebula between. The spheres emanating from the figure trail in a spiral downward that terminates where each sphere has ignited into a blazing star. |
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"The Marten House" Pen & Acrylic Ink Originally intended as a black and white pen & ink, I've decided to use acrylic ink. This will allow me to develop cool green foliage with warm highlights and a blue cross-hatched sky. |
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Media Studies |
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"Study 1" Black Claybord Erasers, Needles, Solvent, and Steel Wool The pencil-style typewrite eraser is one of the best tools to use on black claybord. It can be used over a wide area to bring forward varying shades of grey in a controlled way. To use a needle, just remove the lead from a 0.5mm mechanical pencil (which you can buy at Walmart's) and insert the butt of the needle into the tip of the pencil and push it into the pencil until it stops. Then just use it as you would a technical pen and use your pen & ink techniques. |
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"Study 2" Black Claybord Erasers, Needles, and Steel Wool I've purchased some black claybord that had an excessive amount of ink on it which made it difficult to scratch without sufficient force. I've found it best to purchase white claybord and spray it with india ink to a more workable thickness. |
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"Study 3" Black Claybord Erasers, Needles, and Steel Wool |
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"Study 4" Black Claybord Erasers, Needles, and Steel Wool |
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"Study 5" Staedtler Fineliner Markers and Prismacolor 005 nib Markers I love the colors of the Staedtler pens but the nib is 0.3mm. I wish they made a pen that was half that size. I can compensate by also using the Prismacolor pens that are nearly 0.15 where needed but there are only eight colors. |
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"Study 6" Staedtler Fineliner Markers and Prismacolor 005 nib Markers |
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"Study 7" Acrylic Ink Technical Pen with 00 nib Bristol Board, Vellum Finish After purchasing Koh-I-Noor's line of Acrylic Ink for use in their Rapidograph pen, I wanted to see what range of saturation I could achieve with cross-hatching. I'm very pleased with the results although the pens clogged more than I cared for. No matter; I just clean the pens more frequently. |
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"Study 8" Graphite & Crayola Markers Drafting Vellum Crayola markers are inexpensive and convenient but their colors are fugitive over time. |
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"Study 9" Graphite |
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"Studies 10" Graphite |
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"Studies 11" Pastel sand paper & pastel paper |
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"Study 12" Pen & India Ink slick surface paper |
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GIFs |
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"Animation 1" GIF |
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"Animation 2" GIF |
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"Animation 3" GIF |
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"Animation 4" GIF |
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