After finding 3 secret-caches of ferret food, a rubber mouse and many nerf gun darts, I also found an old blank canvas. *Yay!*
I had been wanting to make an elephant of some sort, so this was perfect timing.
I used Pitt Artist pens for the black lining, and watery acrylics for the elephant. The background is a mix of acrylics and glossy gel medium, which I liked at first but I am not so sure about it now. It has a subtle sheen, but as it's a bit sticky I'm afraid it's going to suck up the circulating dust and get grimy. Another reason to experiment with epoxy-resin I suppose.
I really, really like the line work in this. Reminds me a bit of Zak Smith's "Pictures of What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon’s Novel Gravity’s Rainbow" (2004)
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Thank you very much!
DeleteThe Zak Smith work is phenomenal - I hadn't seen his work before so thank you so much for passing that along. I wish I had that kind of line control, wowwee!