brown-headed cowbird
Craig Houghton January 5th, 2007
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Last weekend I was impressed with a floral from Susan Dorothea’s book, Draw Like Da Vinci. I tried her technique, using a pastel pencil in place of the goldpoint. I built up the whole structure with the gold, worked over the darker values with a charcoal pencil, and used a General’s white charcoal to finish it off. I think I’ll revisit the technique. I’m looking trying out some of the book’s silverpoint suggestions as well.
brown-headed cowbird, 4×5 pastel and charcoal on ink-stained hot press paper
I originally had some text there, but my handwriting is awful. I cloned it away in Painter afterwards.
-Craig
- birds , techniques , charcoal , pastel
