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The 4 Atlantic Provinces
Often times in the corner of a page I will start to doodle with simple lines and dots. When I walked along a Christmas craft market I saw a set of matching potted plates each with a different Atlantic province imprinted into the surface.
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My issue with the plates was the colour, they had been glazed an shade of green close to olive that just put me off, the imprinted provinces where coated in a blue that was more appealing to my eye.
Considering this I decided that if I did not like the way it was done why not come up with my on way of artistically representing the provinces, minus the pottery of course.
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So using my doodling stye I drew the outline of the provinces and doodled away at the inside portions.
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Now however I am faced with the challenge of how to represent my pieces in a way that makes full use of their design.
Penguin Huddle
After a particularly hard day I was waiting for a lift home when I decided to draw away my frustration. I found some image stored on my phone, something that had piqued my interest at the time. I came across this picture of a parent penguin huddling a smaller baby penguin. Since the photo was already in black and white this immediately gave me the inspiration for a charcoal piece but at the time I only had a 2-3H graphite pencil with me.
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Because of the low quality loose leaf paper that I had and the hard type of pencil I was using the quality of my original sketch is poor.
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Going off of that however I started my Charcoal picture, it took quiet a bit of trial and error. The shading on the larger parent penguin was very precise, whereas the smaller baby penguin had a grey coat and therefore was more of a challenge to shade.
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As well as shading it was a challenge to maintain a level of texture in the penguins coats.
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I plan to perfect this charcoal drawing on a canvas that has a special base layer allowing for charcoal drawings to be drawn on it.
