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Hi everybody. I haven't been posting in here very much, but I am "still" busy with drawings for that fundraiser I held a few months ago. Can you believe it?

I thought I'd post a few samples of my recent drawings, paintings and woodburns.


Here are some of my recent drawings
 

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Brilliant brilliant brilliant!!! You get better and better every time you post Liz!
LOVE seeing the blues in that grey you did ;)

Your woodburns are getting very good as well - you are one hell of a flexible artist girl, I'm stuck in my pastel and graphite rut while you're diversifying into so many other mediums - I'm very impressed!
 
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Here is one I just finished for my parents of their cat Freddy. I've drawn just a few cats in my life and although I am happy with how Freddy turned out, I am still not sure about all the shading around him. I mentioned in another thread that I struggle with filling in negative space in order to make the subject pop. If anyone can give me a little advice on this piece, I'd really appreciate it before I give it to my mom. Thanks.
 

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tinyliny- the working from upper right hand corner to lower left hand corner really works (opposite if you are a lefty). I think it was either Kayty or Toadflax who suggested it to me and it has greatly reduced my smudging. It takes some disipline in the beginning, but now it's second nature to me. I Even approach my colored pencil drawings the same way.
 
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Update on the colored pencil drawing. Right now I am just playing around with color combinations to match the horse's color as closely as possible. I am finding that purple works better than blue for the shading effects.
I'll try to post another update later this evening as I have put more work into it.
 

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Progress as of today. I am almost finished with the face and am putting down the first layers of color in the neck. My scanner sort of washed out the nose, but there's more definition in the nose as well as in the blaze. I didn;t just leave it white as the image suggests, but rather layed down some subtle gray tones for shadowing effects. I find that scanned images never do the actual art complete justice. I am sure ya'll other artists would agree.
 

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