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Day 5: Blackboard Bird, 8x10"

When I sat down to today's sketch, I knew I wanted to try something different. So I decided to work in black and white in hopes that I would focus more on my mark-making than color decisions.

Over and over again, blending, taking away, adding... until it got to a point that it was about to be filed in the trashcan. Once you get that far, you can't screw it up any further. I began letting the marks be the values. If you zoom in, the end result looks like the bird is covered with a blackboard. That's something different alright.

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