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Day 2

This is a larger than life charcoal and pastel sketch of the common ole' crow. It is on a sheet of 17"x24" butcher paper which I find perfect for doing studies such as this one. I have a 100% free heaping stack of the stuff. Archival it is not, but it takes away any fear of destroying an expensive sheet of paper which leads me to work with more expressive marks. This mark-making freedom is liberating most of the time but good god it can also make for some wildly terrible drawings. Live and learn.

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