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Tuesday, January 07, 2020

Shelf, Calf and Shipping

I sketched in the big book in my studio today.  I wanted to use my iMac for the reference photo for the calf sketch.  Then I decided to just sketch my rain gutter shelves for Scavenger Hunt 616.

http://www.wetcanvas.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1475231

The calf is from a photo by Donald Smith in the Southwest challenge for January.  I like cows and calves.  This one has his head through a fence or feeder of some sort.  Not sure.  I sketched it first without the fence but with no body the head looked strange.

The calf still looks a bit strange.  I've never seen a black calf with a brown foretop and ears.  Very interesting.  I used a variety of pens and Inktense pencils for the sketch.

For the Scavenger Hunt, #7 shelf - my gutter shelves or part of a couple.  Full of paintings and sketches.  Some should be tossed and a couple should be framed.

Jason Horejs at Xanadu Gallery wrote a great article on shipping.  Some good hints.  I haven't shipped a painting in ages but I did very similar shipping.  Always use the best equipment you can afford, both for painting and shipping.  Being professional helps your image/brand.

https://reddotblog.com/how-to-ship-paintings-a-step-by-step-guide-for-artists-and-galleries/

2 comments:

hmuxo said...

This is great Jo. The shelves came out really nice and the cow as well. you can see that his head is sticking out of the barn. nicely done....

Jo Castillo said...

hmuxo, thank you so much. Gene set up my first set of rain gutters about 2009 or so when I had a studio downtown Bastrop. They are so handy for small bottles, frames, junk. No painting required. Easy to do. The cow is a strange one. Looked very odd without the wood around it. Ha. Strange coloring, too.


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