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neph93

I love Paris and Sacre Couer is still one of my absolute favourite churches. Looking forward to going back one day. Lovely to have a memento like that.

Zen gardens on paper

Aetas

~~Love~~ Art is a burning thing..
…and it makes a fiery ring..
(June Carter, Merle Kilgore)

Beautiful @adam313

Much thanks for that @Aetas! I’ve worked on this peace of paper for about three years and it has evolved like a pair of jeans day after day. An evolution of paper so to speak. And this paper is 850gsm so it’s like the 25oz and I’m thrilled to see how the paper has “faded”. Here’s a few pics of the evolution.

Daily Zen

sabergirl

So vibrant!

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Digging deep on this one!

Daily zen

Daily Zen

Steve

Have been experimenting with my limited prints lately, trying out 24ct gold leaf, harder than I expected, but quite pleased how it looks when finished.

Awesome @Steve. The gold is glorious

And some more daily zen

Anesthetist

Still hard to imagine that’s paper!

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You might say “overworked is the starting point”

Begins like this

Evolves into this

Quoting the Ben Stiller scene from Happy Gilmore: “My fingers hurt!”

Some days Zen is easy, others not so much. Do the best you can…

Steve

Loving the colours you are achieving @adam313 . Would be good to see 'stages' of this, to see the colours being laid down. Are you just layering pencil?

Thanks @Steve. All colored pencil. This is 850gsm cold pressed watercolor paper and each line that you see takes many minutes to complete with a considerable amount of hand force. Takes a loooong time to etch lines with a soft pencil.

The first lines

Steve

@adam313 oh, I see, so you are 'engraving' into the paper, so to speak, and this then gives the texture as you push into the paper fibres?

Love the pic of all the worn down pencils!

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