Saturday, January 3, 2015

Day 3 of Powder Sgrafitto Drawing challenge

Day 3 assignment is to make a landscape using only fingers and business card.  This wasn't as easy as it sounds. I dropped my card in my work more than once, lol, but what fun!!!  I was all set to make a landscape from a photo I took at Aiae Ridge Trail in Oahu but I kept thinking about Trish buying her new airstream today.  This is the result:



One issue I ran into was with borders.  I learned that I could do a general swatch of a desired color and then push the pile with my finger to close the gap between colors and get the shape of the distant mountains.  

I will fire the landscape tomorrow.  I have no doubt that if I can't control my OCD tendencies it will take multiple firings, ha ha ha!  Not being a professional artist, this probably took me 5 times as long as it should, but I sooo enjoy this!

Well,  2 weeks later and I finally got this fired. 

It took 2 firings because I mixed some black in with gray powder for the air stream and the black took over in the firing process.  I used silver luster on the camper and am really pleased with the results.

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