- "Heart of San Pedro" - Western Screech Owl
6" x 6", $55 8" x 8", $70 10" x 10", $95 - "Tell Me More About 'Sheep'"
4" x 12.5", $75 6" x 18", $140 - 20 Horses
5" x 7", $55 - Bella - Great-horned Owl
6" x 6", $55 8" x 8", $70 - Rocky the Donkey
7" x 5", $55 - No Tricks
7" x 5", $55 - Lucky Star
7" x 5", $55 - Bright Future
6" x 6", $55 8" x 8", $70 - Bahagia, Sumatran Tiger
6" x 6", $55 8" x 8", $70 - Sleeping Patterns
$130 for the set - two separate pieces. Each half is 8" x 8" White border NOT included, edge of art = edge of print - The Tale of the Tail
5" x 8", $65 - Chrome Rising - Reference Photo 1
Here's the original reference photo. You can see the hood was white, but without a dark background, the contrast situation wasn't distracting. - Chrome Rising - Reference Photo 2
To give me a better idea of how to re-work the hood, I took that section of the reference and made it darker. That brought up some details that I could incorporate. - Chrome Rising 4
I thought the drawing was finished at this point, but the contrast between the hood and the background was bothering me! See the next image for further discussion. - Chrome Rising - Final
"Chrome Rising" - 6" x 6" scratchboard. 1941 Cadillac hood ornament, from my own reference photo.
Scratched with a #16 X-acto & an eyebrow tattoo needle (on the hood of the car), re-inked (stippling) with a technical pen.
I was mostly happy with the previous version of this drawing, but the contrast between the hood & the background in the corner bothered me. It pulled the eye right off the edge. I re-worked the hood to make it darker and now it reads better. I stippled with a technical pen to make the entire hood darker, and then scratched to blend & add highlights.
Part of the reason I didn't anticipate the issue in the corner is that I usually erase the backgrounds in Photoshop to save printer ink and avoid distraction from the subject. This a case where that worked against me, because in the photo, the background was white, so I wasn't seeing that contrast between the hood & the solid black background until I was finished. See the next 2 images - my reference photos...