Common Grackle

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16”x20”. The border was an experiment.

Probably best described as multimedia, I started with an Artist Bord by Ampersand and covered it with a coat of Golden Silverpoint Drawing Ground. My first thought was to use metalpoint, but after sketching in the birds on both, I switched to colored pencil. I used some blue ink for the backgrounds, and on the larger piece, I used an aluminum scrubber pad to place some blurry tree branches and a border.

9”x12”, I used Spectrafix Final Fixative and then Spectrafix Natural Glass varnish. This is an experiment as I don’t know how colored pencil will react to varnish. Time will tell.

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