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Originally sketched in blue pencil & black pencil, on a (landscape) 81/2"x11" piece of paper, enlarged to fit on a (landscape) 11"x14" piece of Bristol, and transferred in blue pencil with a light box. Inks and ink washes using a Winsor & Newton series 7 #2 brush, with a few small width Micron art pens for tiny details, and a black pencil for light details and texture. Acrylic white paint for fixes and light trim pattern, white pencil for "embroidery" detail on black trim.

I actually sketched this piece a week or two before Father's Day, and a week or two later had most of the detail inked (I think). The summer has been a blur: long story short, between distractions, testing a few other things out that didn't make it to the final piece, and our air conditioner finally giving out (we were miserable -- but good news! New inside unit, and it's handling the hot days much better!)... this piece sat collecting dust and waiting for me to finish it.

I had planned to transfer a copy to better paper to do a background and paint... but I can't do that with what I have and use now. By the time I finally realized I needed to scale this back down, I was a bit sick of seeing it sitting on my drawing table. So I finished it with ink washes. Better scaled back to a simpler idea, than possibly never getting finished.

Description
Originally sketched in blue pencil & black pencil, on a (landscape) 81/2"x11" piece of paper, enlarged to fit on a (landscape) 11"x14" piece of Bristol, and transferred in blue pencil with a light box. Inks and ink washes using a Winsor & Newton series 7 #2 brush, with a few small width Micron art pens for tiny details, and a black pencil for light details and texture. Acrylic white paint for fixes and light trim pattern, white pencil for "embroidery" detail on black trim.

I actually sketched this piece a week or two before Father's Day, and a week or two later had most of the detail inked (I think). The summer has been a blur: long story short, between distractions, testing a few other things out that didn't make it to the final piece, and our air conditioner finally giving out (we were miserable -- but good news! New inside unit, and it's handling the hot days much better!)... this piece sat collecting dust and waiting for me to finish it.

I had planned to transfer a copy to better paper to do a background and paint... but I can't do that with what I have and use now. By the time I finally realized I needed to scale this back down, I was a bit sick of seeing it sitting on my drawing table. So I finished it with ink washes. Better scaled back to a simpler idea, than possibly never getting finished.