Showing posts with label 6x8 Pastel on gessoed Bristol board. Show all posts
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Thursday, August 21, 2008

Paper octopus


A red paper octopus from Japan. I wanted to try drawing on a different type of texture, so I gessoed the background first. I like the way the drawing itself sort of looks like it was made out of paper, like a collage. It was a challenge to draw all those folded paper legs!