Leopard by Michael Murtagh

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This is wonderful. Brilliant composition and great drawing skills.

Posted by Dawn Broughton on Mon 03 Jun 20:41:59

Very effect painting and the fade out to the left work really well.

Posted by Paul Hopkinson on Mon 03 Jun 22:31:38

I love it! fabulous....

Posted by Cheryl Nielson on Tue 04 Jun 05:06:44

Thank you very much, Dawn, Paul and Cheryl!

Posted by Michael Murtagh on Tue 04 Jun 08:48:30

magnificent..., lovely positioning, and choice of what to paint and what to fade is very effective. I've seen this graphite, you are right, difficult to handle. But seeing this makes me want to try again.

Posted by Jo Harris on Tue 04 Jun 09:18:26

Thanks, Jo! I wasn't too sure about this one but I feel better disposed towards it after your and the others' comments! I'm going to persevere with the water-soluble graphite. I've got it in pencil form, too.

Posted by Michael Murtagh on Tue 04 Jun 09:23:37

Brilliant - love the composition as it has so much impact. Beautifully done.

Posted by Thea Cable on Thu 06 Jun 20:51:36

Thank you, Thea!

Posted by Michael Murtagh on Fri 07 Jun 09:00:57

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01/04/2015

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Pen-and-wash study of a leopard's head. I like doing "macro" work in general! For this, I used something I picked up in New York a couple of months ago that I've not seen in the UK - water-soluble graphite. It's a bit different and I found it quite tricky to handle at first. I didn't find it behaved much like watercolour. Anyway, I sharpened up parts of the image with a drawing pen and then put layers of watercolour washes to finish it off.

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