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Barns O Plenty

Well it appears that I have entered my “Barn” period.  I’ve done a number of them and I think I have many more of them before I’m through.  Working out the different tweaks for the style on them.

This is an 8x10 ink + value marker drawing.


It’s hard each time I start one because once I put the pen and markers down on the paper, the mark is there for good.  

NO ERASING ALLOWED!

I do not trace these.  I draw each one by hand from a photo I’ve taken.  Not everything in the picture is just like the photo.  I need to clean things up to get the picture right and somethings I avoid because they are too hard for me right now.  Simple goes a long way.

No pressured at all.  So when do you know when to quite?  For me, I stop and think it’s done but always end up adding a little bit more to finish it off.  Even now I fight the urge to tweak them a little bit more, but I resist because, what’s done is done and I can only mess it up.  But the whole no eraser thing is big mental issue.  Yes, I flub up spots but hey it just makes it look even more artsy.  Or so I tell myself.

Anyway, enjoy.

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