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Process and The Mine Series from Park City

I like to show some of my "Work in Progress" photos, so other can see how I work and steps involved.  For my drawings, there is a process that I follow which involves:


  • Taking a photo of what I want to draw.
  • Add it my "To Do" list in the "Art" photo album on my iPhone / iPad / Mac.
  • Crop (if needed) the photo for what size I'm going to draw (landscape/portrait, etc).  (Edits on the iPhone are non-destructive so I can always revert to the original)
  • Setup my iPad and my paper on my table and start drawing.  Ink pen first.
  • Then grey markers, till done.  That's it.
  • Take photo of finished drawing and name and place into my artwork photo.
  • Maybe show on Facebook, but otherwise update my ToddBlackley.com site.
  • Repeat.
They are not all winners of course but my "Good" rate is about 80%. I'm getting good at this process for my drawing and getting quite a few drawing under my belt.

Park City Mine Series


I've got my Barn series and I've been working on my Park City Mine Series.  I've been liking them a lot and have 6, what I think are pretty good ones now, which includes a couple of 10 x 13 inch ones.  They do look nice in a frame.

I'm still on the fence about selling them in a gallery, but I'm hedging my bets and thus the PC Mine series as the galleries in Park City don't have anything like this (maybe they don't want it?) and the clientele in PC have $$$$ (too many to count), so the benefit could sway my.  No offense to here in Asheville as there are tons of great artists but the $ is .... harder to come by.  

My exception to all this is something like Appalachian Barn Alliance which I would like to have use some of my artwork (for non-commercial usages) for their benefit.

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