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Badger in the Woods

6/6/2020

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​New to my RedBubble store is 'Badger in the Woods'. He's spotted fox down by the stone circle. I'm not sure if they're friends or not. Tawny owl is aware, awake in the day... perhaps something is about to happen.
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As a one off piece it means I can take my time over the art. I altered parts of the picture again and again until I felt pleased with the mage. ​
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I started by sketching out the idea:
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​I was going to attempt to paint this straight onto the drawing conventionally, but I mucked it up! Luckily I had scanned the drawing first as a precaution, as I suspected it would be beyond my watercolour skills to pull this off on cartridge paper at such a small size. I had scanned the image at 600 dpi - the larger the better! So... in Photoshop I started to lay down a base layer of colour...
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The start of the base colours in Photoshop.
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Tawny owl at the start of the painting
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Tawny in the finished piece
​I felt that I had created a problem with the monoliths in the clearing. I made the badger smaller and the monoliths larger. But after a deal of fiddling I decided to push the stones out into the distance and add the fox...
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​Detail of the altered monoliths, with an added foxy:
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​This artwork is now available in my shop! You can have a poster, a print or a greeting card, even a mug! There are many gifts with this design go have a look!
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