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

Curly Twigs Tangle III, early stages

This is on an 18″ x 24″ prepared board, water soluble media…

Something to Hide

I found this young lady in one of many half-filled sketchbooks, and determined it to be incomplete. So I took an hour to work on it today, since I am between projects! I always procrastinate for a while before starting something new. This drawing seems to be an illustration for a book I have not yet found or read.

The off-center focus rectangle is only in the digital version after scanning the drawing, of course. The original drawing is without the softer focus outside edges that create the focus rectangle…