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A sketch a day: walk in the park
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Trying to exercise patient light strokes after dealing with canvas and rough watercolor paper. Somehow I got too heavy-handed for smooth drawing paper and with this little sketch had to stop and remind myself that the goal was to go with light strokes. As in, light on everything.
A sketch a day: landscape with a road ~ charcoal, 6″ x 4″
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