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Click each image to enlarge – there are nice textures here and there.<\/em><\/p>\n This week I painted more art for Schulman Grove’s<\/strong> new visitor center in the White Mountains of California. This group is a series of seven sketchbook pages for exhibit panels below my three murals. These three\u00a0need to be cleaned up a bit,\u00a0so you’ll see some ragged look and blocky edges here and there from all the Photoshop layers. It’s a work in progress, but this way you can\u00a0see\u00a0assembly process.<\/p>\n I hope not, but I may need to move some of the sketches around or change the wording, so I thought it best to create EACH drawing seperately and even the color is seperately\u00a0layered so it can be changed. Each text passage is put in with Photoshop too, so it can be edited if necessary.\u00a0I first did the pencil sketch, then put tracing paper over it and painted the color layer. Both were scanned, pieced together and put on a photo image of one of my blank sketchbooks.\u00a0I think the results look pretty good, like they’re old field sketches drawn on location a century ago. I was shooting for those old botanical illustrations on faded yellow paper, and I think I came close. Once I get approval from the Forest Service, I can clean up the rough edges. The reason I didn’t hand letter the captions is that all this has to be ADA compliant, so the characters have to be an approved font. Ah, the world of public art these days is pretty complex!<\/p>\n Computers can be maddening, but then again they can help produce wonderful results.\u00a0On the other hand, if I didn’t have a few\u00a0drawing skills in the first place, none of this would have happened at all, so don’t send me emails about computers replacing artists. They’re just tools, like paint brushes or pencils.<\/p>\n Thanks for reading this week. Click <\/a>here to go to the online blog this was to.<\/p>\n Click <\/a>here to go to our main website – packed with jigsaw puzzles, prints, interpretive portfolios and lots of other stuff.<\/p>\n Click<\/a> here to check out what Nancy’s currently working on with her photography. She has some new shots of Sequi, the new sea otter she’s been photographing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Click each image to enlarge – there are nice textures here and there. This week I painted more art for Schulman Grove’s new visitor center in the White Mountains of California. This group is a series of seven sketchbook pages for exhibit panels below my three murals. These three\u00a0need to be cleaned up a bit,\u00a0so … Continue reading Sketchbook of the White Mountains<\/span> ![\"\"](\"http:\/\/larryeifert.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/5-Bighorn-Sheep-double-page.jpg\" "\\"5-Bighorn-Sheep-double-page\\"")
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