Pratique—Day 4.
Progress: tail color blocking and underglaze. Tomorrow I’ll begin several days of fine line work to define feathers, so there won’t be updates until most of that effort is done. I won’t work on the head and eye until last, to keep those features crisp and clean.
White-winged dove, Prismacolor pencil on toned paper, 6 x 5 inches (15 x 13 cm).
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Miscellany.
Pratique—Day 3.
Progress: drawing error correction, wing color blocking and underglaze.
White-winged dove, Prismacolor pencil on toned paper, 6 x 5 inches (15 x 13 cm).
In today’s mail. Verso reads:
1. Ignore the problem.
2. Let people die.
3. Don’t take responsibility at all.*
*quoting Donald J. Trump, 13 March 2020.
I muddle through, therefore I am.
I love the way cottonwood leaves dance in the slightest breeze.
Frémont’s cottonwood (Populus fremontii), near the Millville Townsite,
San Pedro Riparian National Conservation Area, Cochise County, Arizona.
Cottonwood drift.
Parry’s beardtongue penstemon (Penstemon parryi), near the Millstone Townsite, Cochise County, Arizona.
Don’t be fooled by the lush vegetation. All of the plants in this photo are adapted for desert life, able to eke out and retain scant water from their surroundings. It’s drier than it looks.
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Dithyramb 