Naart Day 8

[feng_shui_house]

Today I felt ick & so decided not to bother with yard/house work at all & just to sit on my butt & do some art. I'd never tried to do a really complex scratchboard picture before, so I gave myself some 'crutches' by making a photo into a reference the exact size of the scratchboard, and cutting it into pieces that I could use for stencils around the main areas of similar darkness. It was a slowwwww process, but it resulted in a recognizable image of Kerr Avon. Yay.

So here's today's contribution to naarmamo. All my Naart is here, from 2006 to present, divided into galleries by year.

Comments

[linda-joyce.livejournal.com]

A very good likeness for a very difficult, for me any way, technique.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Thank you. It is WAY scary. I wanted to make his skin lighter, but I was afraid I'd scrape down to no detail at all.

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

Wow that is good.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Thank you. ;^)

[jaxomsride.livejournal.com]

PS HOpe you are feeling better soon.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

I'm getting better. It's mainly a headache of the light sensitive sort, so sitting in the dimness by the computer is good. :^) I tried a couple times going out, but it was too ouchy being in the bright heat.

[sallymn.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, he is always good for what ails you...

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Always. :^)

[ultrapsychobrat.livejournal.com]

This is great and so complicated--WOW! Have you done scratchboard a lot? I only ever completed one back in my Trek days--too scary.

[entropy-house.livejournal.com]

Thank you. I think this is my third--- at least I don't remember any more.

My 'beginner's crutch' was very helpful. I cut out the whole figure first (from a paper printout) and scratched a line around it, and then I cut off areas of mostly the same darkness one at a time and scratched around them, and then referred to the cut off piece & a blown-up on the computer image of the full color photo to scratch out that one area before cutting off the next.

If I ever do another I may get braver & make the face lighter.