Gift of Art

This is my grandson playing in Ft. Gibson lake. He loves the water.

I drew the picture of my husband in Drawing I class at NSU. After the class, I wanted to see if I could do this without instruction. Again it's charcoal on Canson Mi Tientes. I'm very pleased with it.

I found the eyes to be the most difficult. They weren't closed but aimed downward at his hand and the photo was taken from above him. It took a while to get the angle just right and I had to erase them more than once.
The hand and the water wasn't as difficult as I thought it would be. It took a lot of layers and I ended up wetting the tip of a white charcoal (what is white charcoal made of anyway?) to get the whitest whites.