The graphite drawing is almost done. So close I'll just wait and show you when it's finished.
Last night I dreamed I was engraving metal. And I think I was pretty good at it, it's hard to tell from a dream though. In the mean time I'll just become more scrimshaw-obsessed. I need to finish (err, start) that nude I sorta started and get her on ebay. I am doing another tutorial following my experiments with mammoth ivory, which is interesting stuff. I'll post the link another day. I tried wet sanding it and it totally absorbed water like mad. Eeek! Never had elephant ivory do that. I had to let it shrink back to normal and then dry sand it. I'm experimenting with different inks and surface preparations (to seal or not to seal) and will progress onto a good piece when I feel like I know what I'm doing. Subject matter: bison (not even sketched out yet).
Oop gotta get those Serama illustrations underway.
I got all my ink the other day. I want to do a large full color piece of a tundra swan on elephant ivory but I want to make SURE that the technique I think will work actually will work before I do something like that. The colors in the swan image are very soft and muted. The ink colors straight out the bottle are shockingly bright so I'd have to do a LOT of mixing. I'm going to start with a small pendant just to practice some color stuff. Subject matter: peacock (colorful!!). This is ready to be transferred to ivory. I really prefer working with etching ink but it doesn't work very well for color. So I'll be using liquid drawing ink. Hmm, where are my tiny brushes...
It's been feeling slightly fall-like but not quite, it's still getting hot during the afternoons. It did rain a little last night. Not a measurable amount though. It did make a rainbow though. The bird population is changing. I hear the white crowned sparrows along the creek. 2 of the 3 hummingbird species are leaving town. I've heard sandhill cranes in the last week (I MUST go to the preserve with The Beast camera this fall!). The horses are getting fuzzy. I'm trying to ride Shylah and Dusty each at least three times a week. Shylah needs exercise. Dusty needs training. Oh heck, they both need both things. Shylah's energy level seems better. She's been on her new diet (added beet pulp, may do other changes too but I'm taking it one step at a time) for about two weeks.
Working with Dusty is a challenge, sometimes it feels like the blind leading the blind, with both of us having to learn about gaits. When Dusty was here for a while two years ago I never got him consistently gaiting and felt like I never could. There seems to be more potential now. Did I magically learn something in those two years? I guess so, plus just doing a whole lot more riding helps a lot. He'll do it, though I don't know enough about TWH's to tell you whether he's foxtrotting (he does that) or doing a running-walk (does he do that yet?) or what. He does about 4843809348 different things and I REALLY have a hard time telling them apart. I know walk, and I can get him going at a very extended walk. I know when he's trotting because it feels like I'm going to bounce into the treetops (UGH). His canter is SO smooth that I have a VERY hard time telling when he's at a slow canter versus a "gait" of some sort. I'm sure you gaited horse people are laughing at me, it must be very easy for you to tell. But I come from the "walk trot canter whoa" world, so you throw and extra few things in there and I'm lost. JJ says listen to the hoofbeats, I want a 4 beat smooth gait. It's so much easier to hear that on the ground. In the saddle it's much harder to hear the hoofbeats over the squeaky saddle and the wind whistling past my ears. Anyway, he's doing much better, but getting him to maintain a gait is going to take a lot of time, it either falls apart into a trot or he throws his nose in the air and starts cantering, and just when he's going well we're at the end of the pasture and have to turn around and go back the other way. My goal for him is to be a really solid trail horse (hmmm...? He's kind of a fruitcake sometimes) and I really want to get him gaiting well. Heck, he's a TWH, he needs to be able to do what he's supposed to do!
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Operation Fuzzybutt and the non-used socks
I headed out of here Friday afternoon and drove the almost-all-boring 209ish miles north to the land of boulders and bears, better known as JC and DC's ranch. We were actually going to be doing our yearly trail ride thing (with Shylah, and now Dusty too!) at this time but that's been rescheduled for later in the year. However, I went up anyway because...
Saturday we left at the horribly early hour of approximately 6:15am and drove to Bend, Oregon (6 hours each way) to pick up JC's new horse. Thankfully I was only a passenger, but still... Actually it was a lot of fun. I like road trips, and I got to see an area I've never been to before (at least not while I was old enough to remember it, apparently I was there once when I was really young). It's high desert country, lots of sagebrush and scrubby trees, and long stretches of forest along the way in southern OR that reminded me so much of the drive through Yellowstone that I half caught myself looking for bison when we would emerge into an open meadow area! I did see two bald eagles!
Anyway, out in the middle of this scrubby BLM land up there is this area with gorgeous houses and spotless barns and perfect fences and green irrigated pastures and sprinklers everywhere. One has to wonder where that water comes from, considering the surrounding landscape. It was a very pretty area, looked like it would be a lot of fun to ride out there. The ranch where JC's new colt came from was absolutely beautiful, and the people who owned him were very kind and showed us all around and we met most of the horses. I didn't take many pictures there, but here's one of their mares:
We got back home (JC's home, not mine) late last night and that little colt is just so calm and sweet. He's a 5 month old Gypsy horse, doesn't yet have a barn name so was called "Fuzzybutt" all weekend, he's so incredibly plush you just want to pick him up and squeeze him. Obviously, a more manly name is needed, though it's hard to imagine this little puffy marshmallow horse turning into a majestic stallion. ;-)
He's now living with Doc, the dun overo Azteca colt, who just got weaned and isn't very happy about that.
I got home this evening, I'm tired. But I know you want to know about the other half of the title..
I wish I had a picture. Maybe I should have taken one but I was felt funny about taking The Beast camera into a truck stop store. We had stopped at a gas station/truck stop in Chemult, Oregon, and I noticed in the store this bin of packaged socks for sale (you know you can buy anything in those places). Anyway, on this bin of packaged socks the hand-written cardboard sign said:
"Non-used Socks $2.99"
The question that immediately came to mind was how much are the used ones?
Why is there a need to clarify NON-USED?!!? Seriously. Do they sell used ones? Does anyone know, I'm really curious. I mean, why not just "socks $2.99" or if you really wanted to be specific "new socks $2.99."
Non-used???
I dunno... I think we'll be laughing about that one for years to come. :-)
Saturday we left at the horribly early hour of approximately 6:15am and drove to Bend, Oregon (6 hours each way) to pick up JC's new horse. Thankfully I was only a passenger, but still... Actually it was a lot of fun. I like road trips, and I got to see an area I've never been to before (at least not while I was old enough to remember it, apparently I was there once when I was really young). It's high desert country, lots of sagebrush and scrubby trees, and long stretches of forest along the way in southern OR that reminded me so much of the drive through Yellowstone that I half caught myself looking for bison when we would emerge into an open meadow area! I did see two bald eagles!
Anyway, out in the middle of this scrubby BLM land up there is this area with gorgeous houses and spotless barns and perfect fences and green irrigated pastures and sprinklers everywhere. One has to wonder where that water comes from, considering the surrounding landscape. It was a very pretty area, looked like it would be a lot of fun to ride out there. The ranch where JC's new colt came from was absolutely beautiful, and the people who owned him were very kind and showed us all around and we met most of the horses. I didn't take many pictures there, but here's one of their mares:
We got back home (JC's home, not mine) late last night and that little colt is just so calm and sweet. He's a 5 month old Gypsy horse, doesn't yet have a barn name so was called "Fuzzybutt" all weekend, he's so incredibly plush you just want to pick him up and squeeze him. Obviously, a more manly name is needed, though it's hard to imagine this little puffy marshmallow horse turning into a majestic stallion. ;-)
He's now living with Doc, the dun overo Azteca colt, who just got weaned and isn't very happy about that.
I got home this evening, I'm tired. But I know you want to know about the other half of the title..
I wish I had a picture. Maybe I should have taken one but I was felt funny about taking The Beast camera into a truck stop store. We had stopped at a gas station/truck stop in Chemult, Oregon, and I noticed in the store this bin of packaged socks for sale (you know you can buy anything in those places). Anyway, on this bin of packaged socks the hand-written cardboard sign said:
"Non-used Socks $2.99"
The question that immediately came to mind was how much are the used ones?
Why is there a need to clarify NON-USED?!!? Seriously. Do they sell used ones? Does anyone know, I'm really curious. I mean, why not just "socks $2.99" or if you really wanted to be specific "new socks $2.99."
Non-used???
I dunno... I think we'll be laughing about that one for years to come. :-)
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
September 24 work in progress
Photographed this afternoon:
Photographed tonight, not sure why it's so pink looking, oh well:
Still need to do the background. I'm really diggin graphite and velour! :-)
I mailed my entries today for the National Wildlife Art Museum's Miniatures and More show (Jackson Hole, September 2009). I submitted scrimshaw. I'm sure that will confuse them as to what category it should go in. They make it very clear this is über competitive and they hardly accept any new artists from year to year, so I'm considering this a long shot and assuming that I will not get in, because getting my hopes up would be foolish. I will not hear anything til probably some time in March 2009, so there won't be anything to say about it until then. I'd tell you to cross your fingers but that's a long time to wait. :-)
I need to think of a good image for a scrim on mammoth ivory. I want to try it out but I don't have anything brilliant in mind. I'm not sure how well I'll like it. I still need to polish it. I've been warned it tends to be pretty soft. That could be good or bad depending how soft. I have a whole page of sketches for "long skinny" images but somehow none of them seem quite right for mammoth.
I ordered a bunch of drawing ink and I'm just ridiculously excited about trying color scrim again now that I have a hunch it might actually work! I'll probably start with a pendant of some sort, just something small to experiment with.
I want to do another tutorial. There's another contest going on... I want to win another, that would get me closer to getting an airgraver... (because right now it's still quite a ways off). Hmmmm....
Photographed tonight, not sure why it's so pink looking, oh well:
Still need to do the background. I'm really diggin graphite and velour! :-)
I mailed my entries today for the National Wildlife Art Museum's Miniatures and More show (Jackson Hole, September 2009). I submitted scrimshaw. I'm sure that will confuse them as to what category it should go in. They make it very clear this is über competitive and they hardly accept any new artists from year to year, so I'm considering this a long shot and assuming that I will not get in, because getting my hopes up would be foolish. I will not hear anything til probably some time in March 2009, so there won't be anything to say about it until then. I'd tell you to cross your fingers but that's a long time to wait. :-)
I need to think of a good image for a scrim on mammoth ivory. I want to try it out but I don't have anything brilliant in mind. I'm not sure how well I'll like it. I still need to polish it. I've been warned it tends to be pretty soft. That could be good or bad depending how soft. I have a whole page of sketches for "long skinny" images but somehow none of them seem quite right for mammoth.
I ordered a bunch of drawing ink and I'm just ridiculously excited about trying color scrim again now that I have a hunch it might actually work! I'll probably start with a pendant of some sort, just something small to experiment with.
I want to do another tutorial. There's another contest going on... I want to win another, that would get me closer to getting an airgraver... (because right now it's still quite a ways off). Hmmmm....
Monday, September 22, 2008
September 22 work in progress
For years before I was an exhibitor at Draft Horse Classic, I was a visitor. And I always showed up at prime-visiting-hours, right before the horse show, when the art show is jam packed. So I thought the art show always must be busy. Ha! I will never forget seven years ago when I sat around and twiddled my thumbs all weekend, read the same magazine over and over, wrote random things in a notebook, and generally was bored out of my gourd. Now I know better. I bring something to work on. There were maybe six artists working on stuff this year, and not only is it a good opportunity to get a lot done (what else can ya do?) but it's a great crowdpleaser. I'll get a big group of people standing around watching me draw, and asking questions. I was self-conscious about it at first, years ago, but it doesn't bother me at all now, I kinda like the crowd! So if I'm not actively writing out receipts, or wandering around the building visiting with other artists, I just sit and draw, and usually get a LOT done in all those hours.
I had sketched this out right before the show, and started the final drawing on Thursday. Here's how it looked as of Sunday evening:
not yet titled
12x18 inches
graphite and charcoal on velour paper
price TBD
I had wanted to finish another real eyepopping scrimshaw piece this week but that won't happen, not enough time. So I'll make do with what I have for the art show entry. I think I need to try using India ink again instead of etching ink (at least for some projects). I would really like to be able to use Renaissance wax as a barrier between colors (I DO want to get good at doing color scrim, even though I prefer the look of B/W) and I find that wax and etching ink are not a good combo. The wax will wipe the etching ink out of the scrim, unless it's been drying for a *very* long time (seems to be at least a couple months, based on some experimenting I've done). Who has time for that? Psh!
India ink is in my opinion a pain to work with, which is why I don't use it. I like the way that etching ink is applied and buffed down. But... I think India ink is my best bet for color work, and possibly also for "high use" B/W pieces (jewelry).
I did a little experiment tonight. This is a broken piece of unpolished ivory about the size of my thumbnail. The top part is black waterproof Higgins India Ink. The middle part is black etching ink. The bottom part is carmine fadeproof Higgins Drawing Ink. I let them dry for about, oh, a minute, and then applied Ren Wax. I knew the etching ink would come right out, and sure enough it did, but I'm pleased to see that neither of the liquid drawing inks pulled out with the wax. This is good, I'm optimistic about trying some new techniques. I need to get more ink colors, I only have black and red.
I had sketched this out right before the show, and started the final drawing on Thursday. Here's how it looked as of Sunday evening:
not yet titled
12x18 inches
graphite and charcoal on velour paper
price TBD
I had wanted to finish another real eyepopping scrimshaw piece this week but that won't happen, not enough time. So I'll make do with what I have for the art show entry. I think I need to try using India ink again instead of etching ink (at least for some projects). I would really like to be able to use Renaissance wax as a barrier between colors (I DO want to get good at doing color scrim, even though I prefer the look of B/W) and I find that wax and etching ink are not a good combo. The wax will wipe the etching ink out of the scrim, unless it's been drying for a *very* long time (seems to be at least a couple months, based on some experimenting I've done). Who has time for that? Psh!
India ink is in my opinion a pain to work with, which is why I don't use it. I like the way that etching ink is applied and buffed down. But... I think India ink is my best bet for color work, and possibly also for "high use" B/W pieces (jewelry).
I did a little experiment tonight. This is a broken piece of unpolished ivory about the size of my thumbnail. The top part is black waterproof Higgins India Ink. The middle part is black etching ink. The bottom part is carmine fadeproof Higgins Drawing Ink. I let them dry for about, oh, a minute, and then applied Ren Wax. I knew the etching ink would come right out, and sure enough it did, but I'm pleased to see that neither of the liquid drawing inks pulled out with the wax. This is good, I'm optimistic about trying some new techniques. I need to get more ink colors, I only have black and red.
Sunday, September 21, 2008
and then something wonderful happened
Two wonderful things, actually. :-)
First, a very cool lady named Catherine stopped by and bought "Aragorn at One Year." Yup, the original! He's off to a good home, and I'm very excited about that!!!
And then "Thankful" won People's Choice!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*SO EXCITED*
I have not tallied things up yet, but I think I may find this actually turned out to be my best year, but only because of selling a large original painting, otherwise sales were way down, as were the number of visitors. Dang economy. It'll be interesting to see what the top selling card was. I have a hunch but I'll add them up tomorrow.
I'm tired and sore and happy and I ate way too much sugar today and I'd do just about anything for a foot massage right about now.
And I need to remember that when I've been shooting pics at ISO 800 I need to remember to reset that to auto, otherwise all my "normal" photos turn out gritty too, oops!
First, a very cool lady named Catherine stopped by and bought "Aragorn at One Year." Yup, the original! He's off to a good home, and I'm very excited about that!!!
And then "Thankful" won People's Choice!!! OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-) !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
*SO EXCITED*
I have not tallied things up yet, but I think I may find this actually turned out to be my best year, but only because of selling a large original painting, otherwise sales were way down, as were the number of visitors. Dang economy. It'll be interesting to see what the top selling card was. I have a hunch but I'll add them up tomorrow.
I'm tired and sore and happy and I ate way too much sugar today and I'd do just about anything for a foot massage right about now.
And I need to remember that when I've been shooting pics at ISO 800 I need to remember to reset that to auto, otherwise all my "normal" photos turn out gritty too, oops!
Saturday, September 20, 2008
and in keeping with tradition...
How my morning started:
*sigh* Every year something goes wrong. I'd hoped to escape unscathed this time around but no such luck. This is the second time I've gotten a flat tire during the DHC show (and this is also flat tire #14 in my lifetime). Luckily it happened here in the driveway, and the people I am staying with have one of those tire plug kits. Thank you R family!!! I really can't even get worked up about flats anymore, I just looked at it, rolled my eyes, and thought "well of course." I was only a half hour late to the show.
Today was much better but it's still noticeably different this year. Tonight was the artist party. Several of the artists (and friends) are talented musicians so they get together for a little jam session. It's a lot of fun. I think it had been about 13 years since the last time I two-stepped, lol!
I feel like this by the end of the day too:
*sigh* Every year something goes wrong. I'd hoped to escape unscathed this time around but no such luck. This is the second time I've gotten a flat tire during the DHC show (and this is also flat tire #14 in my lifetime). Luckily it happened here in the driveway, and the people I am staying with have one of those tire plug kits. Thank you R family!!! I really can't even get worked up about flats anymore, I just looked at it, rolled my eyes, and thought "well of course." I was only a half hour late to the show.
Today was much better but it's still noticeably different this year. Tonight was the artist party. Several of the artists (and friends) are talented musicians so they get together for a little jam session. It's a lot of fun. I think it had been about 13 years since the last time I two-stepped, lol!
I feel like this by the end of the day too:
Friday, September 19, 2008
a slow start
Well, let's just say there's significant room for improvement in sales here at the Draft Horse Classic. Yesterday, in typical Thursday fashion, was a complete waste of time. Today was slightly better but it sure seemed empty. I'm counting on the weekend!
Here's the booth:
"Thankful" with first place ribbon:
"Sunday Morning" with second place ribbon:
Some Friesians:
A Clydesdale:
The horse pics were taken during the Thursday evening show, which started at 6:30pm, so I'm impressed they came out this well considering the low light. I think I was shooting at ISO 800, but of course it eventually just got way too dark.
I'm getting lots of questions about scrimshaw, and I'm actually impressed by how many people know what it is (at least somewhat).
I love it when people remember me from year to year, and even better is when they tell me they've come up just to shop my booth (yes, that really happened today!) I recognize a lot of the same visitors from year to year.
Oh, want to hear some really exiting news? I won the "Most Informative" category in the engraving tutorial (with the bear cub scrimshaw) so that's going to be a significant step toward getting setup to learn how to engrave metal. I'm gonna git me an airgraver! Woo hoo! Now I just need a vice...
Here's the booth:
"Thankful" with first place ribbon:
"Sunday Morning" with second place ribbon:
Some Friesians:
A Clydesdale:
The horse pics were taken during the Thursday evening show, which started at 6:30pm, so I'm impressed they came out this well considering the low light. I think I was shooting at ISO 800, but of course it eventually just got way too dark.
I'm getting lots of questions about scrimshaw, and I'm actually impressed by how many people know what it is (at least somewhat).
I love it when people remember me from year to year, and even better is when they tell me they've come up just to shop my booth (yes, that really happened today!) I recognize a lot of the same visitors from year to year.
Oh, want to hear some really exiting news? I won the "Most Informative" category in the engraving tutorial (with the bear cub scrimshaw) so that's going to be a significant step toward getting setup to learn how to engrave metal. I'm gonna git me an airgraver! Woo hoo! Now I just need a vice...
Wednesday, September 17, 2008
wish me luck!
Well, Draft Horse Classic starts tomorrow! Today I set up the booth, and I have to say it really looks good this year. It's not cluttered, and I was able to open it up a little bigger than a 10x10 because there's an empty space (door) next to me. I'll take pics!
The entries are judged already. Drum roll please...
"Thankful" took first place in the pencil category. Woo hoo! And "Sunday Morning" took second in the "all other" category. Woo hoo!
Think happy thoughts, I'll blog if I can. :-)
The entries are judged already. Drum roll please...
"Thankful" took first place in the pencil category. Woo hoo! And "Sunday Morning" took second in the "all other" category. Woo hoo!
Think happy thoughts, I'll blog if I can. :-)
Sunday, September 14, 2008
busy, how was yours?
Dang, this weekend flew. I got a lot done though. I've typed up most of my labels (everything gets an "artist statement" this year), I redid my sign to include the word "scrimshaw," I got a horse drawing sketched out to work on at the show. Tomorrow I'll pick up the new cards. I barn-sat over the weekend at a beautiful ranch about 20 minutes away. It's not hard (feeding, cleaning stall, moving horses around) but it sure eats up a lot of the day at a time when I'm feeling pressed for time (hour and a half of work, hour and twenty minutes driving, sixty miles per day... I had to go out twice a day). Yesterday I drove up to Grass Valley and dropped off my entries. Tomorrow and Tuesday are going to be all about packing up, labeling, and folding cards.
The engraving forum is doing another tutorial competition, results of the first one (where I did the bear scrim) will be available this coming Friday. I'm thinking about entering the next one too, because it was fun! Someone suggested I work on an elk tooth for that one. I could do that, I do have one more tooth. I'd need to think of an image, and I would rather present it as an art piece than a necklace so I'd have to think about how to do that. Or, I just started the bronc rider scrim (well, so far just sketched). Or, there's that knife that I could potentially really mess up in public view... Hmm.
The engraving forum is doing another tutorial competition, results of the first one (where I did the bear scrim) will be available this coming Friday. I'm thinking about entering the next one too, because it was fun! Someone suggested I work on an elk tooth for that one. I could do that, I do have one more tooth. I'd need to think of an image, and I would rather present it as an art piece than a necklace so I'd have to think about how to do that. Or, I just started the bronc rider scrim (well, so far just sketched). Or, there's that knife that I could potentially really mess up in public view... Hmm.
Friday, September 12, 2008
the landscape drawing
I did not give it adequate attention in last night's blog. That was sort of "omg it's done yay post it!" I'll talk more now.
Okay, just to post it again so y'all can see it:
"Teton Winter Morning"
7.5 by 20 inches
colored pencil and graphite on cream Stonehenge paper
for sale, haven't figured out the price yet, depends on the frame, etc.
It's a place I've been, Teton County, Idaho. I spent ten days there when I was on The Adventure, and many times I stood leaning on the corral gate looking out across those fields at the Teton mountains. I rode Sara the mule in that field. It's stunningly beautiful. It was green when I was there, I've only seen wintertime in pictures.
There are a couple reasons I drew this. One is that I tend to avoid landscapes and I needed to prove that I can do it and this is a scene that intrigued me, and yes it was a struggle. And it was sort of a way to pay homage to a place forever etched fondly in my memory. It's not exact, but maybe it's as it ought to be. That's one of the fun things about art, you can improve on real life. Need a bigger pasture? I can draw you one. ;-)
I'm still going to be submitting work to a gallery (likely more than one, we'll see how it goes) in Jackson Hole, but I wanted to bulk up the portfolio. A lot of the horse art I've done are portraits, and though good portraits many of them lack much other substance. That's not to disparage them, but they are the sort of things where if it's not YOUR horse then it's just not going to have the same meaning. I want to engage the viewer more, draw them in. And some local scenery never hurts anything. ;-)
I think it's one of those drawings best seen from across the room. It's not photorealistic, not up close anyway, and was not intended to be. It's actually pretty gritty:
The horses (and mule!) are about a half an inch tall.
I'll frame it this weekend, and it'll go to the show with me next week.
Just for curiosity sake there are 19 colors of pencil in this drawing.
Okay, just to post it again so y'all can see it:
"Teton Winter Morning"
7.5 by 20 inches
colored pencil and graphite on cream Stonehenge paper
for sale, haven't figured out the price yet, depends on the frame, etc.
It's a place I've been, Teton County, Idaho. I spent ten days there when I was on The Adventure, and many times I stood leaning on the corral gate looking out across those fields at the Teton mountains. I rode Sara the mule in that field. It's stunningly beautiful. It was green when I was there, I've only seen wintertime in pictures.
There are a couple reasons I drew this. One is that I tend to avoid landscapes and I needed to prove that I can do it and this is a scene that intrigued me, and yes it was a struggle. And it was sort of a way to pay homage to a place forever etched fondly in my memory. It's not exact, but maybe it's as it ought to be. That's one of the fun things about art, you can improve on real life. Need a bigger pasture? I can draw you one. ;-)
I'm still going to be submitting work to a gallery (likely more than one, we'll see how it goes) in Jackson Hole, but I wanted to bulk up the portfolio. A lot of the horse art I've done are portraits, and though good portraits many of them lack much other substance. That's not to disparage them, but they are the sort of things where if it's not YOUR horse then it's just not going to have the same meaning. I want to engage the viewer more, draw them in. And some local scenery never hurts anything. ;-)
I think it's one of those drawings best seen from across the room. It's not photorealistic, not up close anyway, and was not intended to be. It's actually pretty gritty:
The horses (and mule!) are about a half an inch tall.
I'll frame it this weekend, and it'll go to the show with me next week.
Just for curiosity sake there are 19 colors of pencil in this drawing.
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