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2/15/19
At this point, I'm doing more of the same thing and adding finishing touches. I added a bit more bright blues and white. Next time I want to paint the edges and sign it, but other than that, I believe it is done. 2/13/19 I added a bunch more white lines to give the piece more depth and begin closing the bigger black gaps. I also took dark values of my color palette to add detail into the remaining dark space. 2/11/19 Mrs. Mosley gave me a giant bin of string so I dipped different sizes in paint and printed and dragged them onto the canvas. This allowed me to get thin and straight lines across a wide area. I also used the palette knife to create the textured white lines. It was looking a little too vertical so i scraped horizontal lines into the paint already on the canvas. 2/6/19 Just getting started! I painted down a dark base and was going to leave it there but I also added some white marks that I could build on top of later that can peak through. I know I want to bounce off of my practice painting by creating a pattern of vertical lines but I haven't decided what method I should use yet. 11/21/18
Sorry that there aren't more pictures but I basically did this over the course of a day with very long sittings and forgot to take pictures in between. I have realized that my hair is doing weird things so right now it follows the picture but that may be subject to change. I am also having some difficulty with the eye but I think once shadows are added, it will look more normal. Sandy is looking cute as ever, but I am still contemplating what mark I will use to make her fur. I thought I would have more difficulty with the hand than I did so I am pretty proud of that. I will continue to tweak the preliminary drawing after some critiques and I need to decide how to move forward with the background. Additionally, the composition could change and part of it i need to deckle at school. 11/26/18 I am off to a hesitant start with the conte and kind of skipped around between different parts of the piece. Hopefully I will get into a rhythm soon. 12/1/18 I did the folds of the shirt and I am pretty happy with how they turned out. I think the fabric makes it more similar to the old master drawing but the marks overall look a little bit smudgier and darker that the old master drawing. 12/2/18 I did a bunch today and added conte to the puppy and the face. I had some issues with the fur folds around Sandy's neck, but I think I fixed it and it looks pretty good now 12/6/18 I spent a while just focusing on the face and she went through a bunch of nose jobs before it looked remotely like me but I think the shadows on the face helped bring it together. 12/7/18 Here, I added in the white highlights which is always so fun and makes everything pop more. I had been avoiding the hair up until now but I started on it and right now it looks like I am graying. 12/8/18 I finished the hair and tried my best to capture all of the fly aways and shadows without my hair looking like a bird's nest. It is a little different approach that the old master but since it was closer up, I think more detail was needed. 12/9/18 I have two pictures for this because I realized I did the background but forgot to add highlights to the fabric. I am still a little torn about the background but I don't want to add too much and detract attention from the subjects. Then I signed it and now all I have to do is deckle the last edge. 12/11/18 After a helpful critique, I have enhanced the highlights, and darkened the background so now I think I'm actually done. Being the indecisive person that I am, I have narrowed my options down to two pictures but I have yet to decide which to actually choose. Edit: I have decided to draw the picture on the right mostly because my dog is adorable but also because with the other one I would have to make big changes in order to make the composition effective.
They aren't the highest quality but they are options
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