BaronEngel
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Marble Glory
🕑 Added 2017-07-21 16:58:33 +0000 UTC I posted a work in progress of this piece, and if you follow me on Twitter you've seen numerous postings as I went through this piece step by step. Well here it is finished and ready to ship to my patron/client Sylvan Ryan who has banked many, many of his $50.00 month pledges to make this piece possible. The piece was an interesting challenge in many ways.
First I haven't done many finished colored examples of marble sculpture so I had to do a bit of homework first.
Second the piece could've been rather dull with all the light colored stonework in the piece, so I deliberately chose an early morning setting to give some more vibrant reflective colors.
Third Marble Vein the mare resting on plinth is almost marble white herself, but I didn't want her to be mistaken for one of statues in the piece. I did that subtly adjusting the shadows and highlights on her to give them a softer edge.
Fourth I needed enough room to render some of the details in the piece, but at the same time I didn't want the piece to be gigantic, so I had to strike a balance in it. The final image size was 11.25"H x 23.25"W. Still I ended up working in some fairly small areas. Example, the landscape painting behind Marble Vein is only 1.75"H x 2.75"W.
The piece is in my typical colored pencil with marker pen, technical pen, and white gouache details. The working surface is Strathmore 500 Series 2ply Vellum finish Bristol Board.
Comments
McClaw
I keep wanting to come up with a reference for "rolling the Marble"...
