{"id":3216,"date":"2011-05-09T15:28:00","date_gmt":"2011-05-09T22:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.annran.com\/website\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2021-08-21T01:27:34","modified_gmt":"2021-08-21T08:27:34","slug":"work-in-progress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/work-in-progress\/","title":{"rendered":"Work in Progress"},"content":{"rendered":"

Nothing really new to report, but I’ve been plugging away on a number of drawings, so I thought I’d post three of them that are in progress. The first two are farther along than last time I posted them on the blog.<\/p>\n

This one is a pencil portrait of Breezy, the Arab mare:
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Here’s an earlier stage of the drawing:
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The drawing is approximately 7″ x 7″ in pencil on Stonehenge paper.<\/p>\n

This portrait of Brogan, an Irish Wolfhound, is mixed media (ink, watercolor & eventually, color pencil) on Aquabord. The board is 9″ x 12″, which makes the image area approx. 8″ x 10″.<\/p>\n


\nThis stage is watercolor, applied fairly loosely to block in the basic areas of color. The darkest areas (black) were drawn with India ink.
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\nHere I’ve added some more detail with watercolor
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\nHere I’ve scratched in detail and fur texture with an X-Acto knife (#11 blade). The next step will be to come back in with watercolor applied more carefully than in the first two steps.
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The last one is a drawing of a German Shepherd pup on black scratchboard (Ampersand Scratchbord). This is not a commission, just one I’m doing because I want to work on the black scratchboard surface. I haven’t done many illustrations on this surface. I’ve been hanging out in the Scratchboard Forum of WetCanvas lately, and there’s some jaw-dropping work on the black boards in that group.<\/p>\n


\nThis is a 5″ x 7″ board. All I’ve done so far is scratch with an X-Acto knife. Once I have all the scratching completed, I’ll come back in with ink as needed for detail.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Nothing really new to report, but I’ve been plugging away on a number of drawings, so I thought I’d post three of them that are in progress. The first two are farther along than last time I posted them on … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[247,13,244],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pencil","category-scratchboard","category-wip-work-in-progress"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3300,"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions\/3300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/annran.com\/website\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}