Begin with the spaces between …
Here I start working the space between the curly twig tangles before the twigs… and Voila! A creature appears!
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Enter the Darkness
After more work: scan it!
Scanning gives me more control and higher resolution than a photo, but… my scanner is limited to 12″ x 17″. This piece is 18″ x 24″. So multiple scans, and much care with exact alignment is required. Even so, I have settled for 3, rather than the 6 scans required for the full image. I need some overlap for accurate alignment and matching light.
Curly Twigs III, draft 23!
I like the version above better. For me, the difference (a much lighter grey background at top left, plus more lights in the red-brown twig) makes the whole piece more buoyant, more lively, more magical and mysterious…
Curly Twigs Tangle III, draft 20, scanned
Bringing it back…
And two diversions…
Working with a Variation
Curly Twigs II New Variation
I have made verious changes to a version of the second “Curly Twigs” piece, which was graphite & colored pencil drawing on vellum paper. I scanned this, worked on the digital image, creating layers, tidying, modifying tones & colors, and enlarging the image. I printed this onto a quality Epson coated matte finish paper at (not quite) 12″ x 18″. Then I worked a bit more on the color using Pan pastels and colored pencil.
It looks very different from the original now!
Curly Twigs Tangle II
