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| 1/28/15 India and Platinum Carbon inks, twig, watercolor, Canson XL 140 lb. paper |
In Shoreline early this morning to drop something off at a
client’s office, I saw that a faint hint of peachy-pink still tinted the
clouds. I quickly chose a tree to silhouette against that sublime sky.
This may be one of my favorite chopped-tree-with-power-lines
sketches due mainly to that bird that appeared briefly on the wire. Usually if
I sketch a distant bird, I make the mistake of showing it in profile, inevitably
making the beak disproportionately large. With a blunt twig in my hand, I knew
I wouldn’t be able to make a fine enough mark to draw the beak, so with quick stroke, I sketched it
from the back instead.
I like the soft subtle sky behind that wonderful tree and bird.
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