The Parliament building in Vienna, Austria.
Submitted for Lens Day challenge “Government.”
March, 2006
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Mar 06
Through Grandpa’s Eyes
My nephew, wearing his grandfather’s reading glasses.
Colored pencil on Bristol vellum. Background is pastel.
20
Mar 06
Through Grandpa’s Eyes: Progression
Colored pencil on Bristol vellum. Started 2/1/06, completed 3/20/06.
Source image
2/8/06 – Base skin layer put down, started facial modeling. I wish I could take credit for those perfectly rendered eyes, but I can’t. The instructor drew them, as a demonstration for the class on how to draw realistic eyes. Skin layers: cream, deco pink, light peach, pink, peach, white. Modeling layer is goldenrod.
2/12/06 – Further facial modeling done. Modeling is goldenrod covered with pink.
2/18/06 – Layer of peach to lighten and blend skin. Some edge blending in pink. Lips: peach, pink and highlighting in poppy red, then tuscan red edging. Interior of mouth: pink and tuscan red, and indigo blue at right side. The initial hair layer was laid down in jasmine.
2/24/06 – Hair completed: jasmine highlights, sienna brown and dark umber. Glasses filled in: raw umber, tuscan red, indigo blue. Base skin layer on hand begun: cream, deco pink, light peach, pink, peach. Shadow of glasses darked in tuscan red.
3/10/06 – Hand completed: modeling with goldenrod and pink; blending in blush pink and light peach; touches of tuscan red. Some shading under chin, on neck and next to ear done in sanguine. Lengthened hair over left eye: jasmine, sienna brown, dark umber. Defined inside of ear with tuscan red.
3/18/06 – Working on shirt. Red area is deco yellow covered with several layers of crimson red, then blended with a colorless blending pencil. Blue area is true blue with an overlay of indigo blue for texturing and darkening. The shirt is partially complete here: the left sleeve is only yellow, no red, and the right forearm has partial red layers. The blue part of the shirt is done over the sleeve cuff, but the rest of the shirt has only the underlying true blue layer without the indigo blue texturing. I stopped at this point and decided to scan it to show the pieces only partly finished.
3/20/06 – Complete. Background is a light blue pastel stick, smeared with tissue and q-tips.
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Mar 06
Salt of the Earth
While in Poland, we visited the salt mine at Wieliczka. Miners have been working here for hundreds of years, starting in the late 13th century.
Not all of the salt in a mine is of commercial value. Some is too intermixed with other minerals and rock to be harvested. At Wieliczka, the miners have a tradition of creating elaborate sculptures out of this unusable salt. One chamber we visited was stunning — an entire chapel carved out of salt, complete with pews. This picture shows one wall of the chapel.
Submitted for Lens Day challenge “Crystalline.”
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Mar 06
Frank Reid’s last stop
Our tour guide in Skagway Alaska, posing for a cheesy tourist photo at the town’s oldest cemetery. The oversized marker is that of the local hero, Frank Reid.
Submitted for Photo Friday challenge “Feminine.”
