- (115925) "Got Carrots?" 2
First pass of watercolor on Daisy. I used a very limited palette: brown & two shades of grey (one light, one dark). Next I'll scratch selectively to bring back some lights and to blend the color. - (112200) "Got Carrots?" 3 (Final)
Finished! 3" x 4.75" scratchboard with watercolor. Find out more about Daisy at Big Sky Burro - (111980) "Got Carrots?" 1
3" x 4.75" scratchboard drawing of Daisy, a friend's donkey. The drawing's all scratched, ready for color. - (106098) "Got Carrots?" 3 stages, 1 image
This image shows the previous 3 images together. - (98281) Livestock Guarding Puppy
This little one is 6 weeks old. It's a Spanish Mastiff/Great Pyrenees mix. - (93044) Livestock Guarding Puppy
This little one is 6 weeks old. It's a Spanish Mastiff/Great Pyrenees mix. - (92529) Sandhill Crane
Sandhill Crane: 2" square scratchboard with watercolor. *sold* - (69708) Blackbelly Sheep
Handsome ram! - (65464) "Tale of the Tail" - Materials and Progress
Tools of the trade. Here I'm still working on the first pass of scratching, after I finish that, I'll add more color. I'll switch to watercolor for that, I have to layer colors when I use the pens, but I can mix the exact color I need with watercolor. - (60329) "Tale of the Tail" - early stage - ink & scratching
The start of a 3" x 4.75" drawing of a tiger cub, playing with his mom's tail. Reference photo courtesy of Erik Bowker. I've added ink with a technical pen & have started scratching. The lighter black areas are the scratched portions. - (58918) Scotia 2
Scratching is underway! - (58687) Scotia 4
Scotia's portrait is "all scratched". She's much too light at this stage, I need to go in and add dark areas with a tech pen, then I can add color! Once that's done, she'll look like a black dog. - (56714) "Tale of the Tail" - 1st Scan
This is a scan of the CJ drawing, it's much better quality than the previous images that were cell phone photos. The first layer of color is down, I've fiddled with adding & subtracting (by scratching) color to the foreground & background, and I'm starting to scratch the tiger fur. The section of mom's tail to the left of CJ's face is taking shape now that the color has been scratched. - (55662) Scotia 8 (Final)
Scotia's finished portrait 7" x 5" scratchboard, with watercolor from my own reference photo - (55342) Scotia 5
Black ink added with a technical pen. I inked more places than I had originally planned, but I let the drawings tell me what they need. I'll scratch as needed to better blend the inked areas. Watercolor on her tongue, eyes, inner ears. Next I'll add watercolor on all of her fur and her nose.