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Sketchbook Sketch

Final crowquill pen and ink drawing on hot press watercolor paper

Final, crow quill pen and ink on hot press watercolor paper

This took forever for me to draw:

Try 1:

Try 2:

Try 3:

Try 4:

The final crowquill pen and ink drawing:

I blew up huge copies of the drawing and mounted them and left a few around town. This one's at the Denver Botanical Gardens:

Outside the Vance Kirkland Museum:

The idea was to draw from an original snapshot and then, reintroduce the figure into the real world again, in an attempt to re-capture a memory.