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Terracotta Oil Paint 2

May 5, 2015May 5, 2015 ~ cavepainter

Terracotta pot shard being ground with a granite mortar and pestle.

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Here's another scene from the same day as the last post. This mule deer was making her way through a narrow path in the snow made by two others a few steps ahead. . There's three different widths of pencil and lead hardnesses, plus a little brown ink from a brush pen. The deer was already drawn and shaded the deer before the ink was added, so I used another page to test adding ink on top of graphite. It worked well, but once the ink was on the deer it was too dark. I tried fixing it with white chalk, white colored pencil, lots of erasing, and shading it again with graphite. The paper held up fairly well through all of that. Only a little of the white chalk is still faintly visible, but I like the effect it gives. . . . #drawing #sketch #realism #sketchbook #natureart #artstudy #art #worksonpaper #pencilandink #mechanicalpencil #graphite #pentel #rockymountains #contemporaryrealism #freehanddrawing #m_artcollection #moleskine #moleskineart #wildlifeart #artjournal #traveljournal #mixedmedia

The painting on the left is of a small stream west of Glenwood Springs, and on the right is a mule deer from another part of the mountains. The last time I took the train through the mountains there were a lot of deer, more than I've seen in years, and the photo reference for this was one of them. . . . #sketchbook #acrylic #acrylicart #acryliconpaper #acrylicartist #traveljournal #moleskine #moleskineart #m_artcollection #sketchbookart #Colorado #contemporaryrealism #winterart #eveninglight #landscapepainting #colorfulcolorado #colorado_creative #muledeer #snowyscene

I recently passed by the same scene as the last post, but with very different lighting, so here's a second version of it. One additional detail mentioned by the @Amtrak train conductor is that the schoolhouse was built for the children of the miners that were digging the Moffat Tunnel a short distance away. . This time I used a small set of acrylics from @Goldenpaints. It's the first time I've used their "open acrylics", which stay workable for noticeably longer than normal. The previous experiments with oil paint in this sketchbook worked well, but these acrylics seem much more suitable for traveling with. . . . #sketchbook #acrylic #acrylicart #acryliconpaper #Goldenpaints #traveljournal #moleskine #moleskineart #m_artcollection #mountainart #Colorado #contemporaryrealism #winterart #eveninglight #landscapepainting #colorfulcolorado #colorado_creative #goldenopen #frontrange #Amtrak

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