OTI:one pic, notes:11/20/17

Notes: It's a scratchboard drawing (Least Tern--sorta, bill too big, eyes where?)on Clayboard...Clayboard had just come out when I was taking art classes at Palomar...we were introduced to a lot of media in some of the classes...instructor noted that when we went in Barnes and Noble Bookstore, all those portraits of writers were done with scratchboard(Mark Summers)...it's like scrimshaw, etching, woodblock, etc...and one has to work backwards...like making a negative...made this positive in Photoshop Elements, which I always use for upload prep...hmmph...not my thing, but it might lend itself to some things, like feathers and fur...I went to Michael's and got some ceramic pointy tools, along with a hand and a figure manikin, and some nib pens with points, and ten 8x10 canvases for ten bucks...eighty bucks all together...Clayboard is expensive, but the old paper sheet scractchboard not so much...and one can make something of ones own...drawing can be tiny as the ground holds a line perfectly...signature and date are like half an inch each...

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DavidDavid