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My husband had this wonderful old photo and mentioned it would be an interesting graphite drawing. I gave it a try, taking over two weeks to complete it. It measures 9″ x 12″, and I used Canson Fluid multimedia paper. Maybe the bright leaves on the bottom right are too bright, but after hours of gray, gray, gray, I went a little overboard with the electric eraser.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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And here’s the original photo, which measures 5″ x 7″. I just love it. A photo like this is awesome as is, and I wouldn’t normally try to copy something like this, but as I learn more about landscape drawing, it was a perfect exercise in foliage and also creating atmosphere. It was fascinating to take a photo of this and then zoom in. It revealed a white chicken way down the road, a detail I left out of my drawing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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My husband had this wonderful old photo and mentioned it would be an interesting graphite drawing. I gave it a try, taking over two weeks to complete it. It measures 9″ x 12″, and I used Canson Fluid multimedia paper. Maybe the bright leaves on the bottom right are too bright, but after hours of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[380,420,3],"tags":[415,449,591,400,10],"class_list":["post-2603","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-pencil","category-vintage","tag-drawing","tag-graphite","tag-landscape","tag-pencil","tag-vintage-2"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3wmm6-FZ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2607,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions\/2607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/horsenettle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}