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Rain for the Drylands

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Painting on an antelope scapula.  This was a Christmas gift to my grandfather.  It was the last antelope he took at the age of 90 , so I cleaned the bones up three or more years back to paint on, but never quite got there.  With my grandpa's health in a bit of decline, I really wanted to get this finished, so I made it priority.  I really like how it came out, though I need more work with lighting and layering, I am slowly improving my painting technique. 

The colors appear more vivid in the backdrop shot.  It looks more like: orig12.deviantart.net/5c63/f/2… in person, but I did not want the 'cleaned' up gallery version to have my mitt in it. 

Referenced from a photo, but cannot find the original on the net.  All credit for photo and reference goes to original photographer, artistic rendition to me. 
Image size
1500x1032px 895.8 KB
Make
NIKON CORPORATION
Model
NIKON D5200
Shutter Speed
10/800 second
Aperture
F/3.5
Focal Length
35 mm
ISO Speed
320
Date Taken
Dec 25, 2015, 5:25:23 AM
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Talonzi's avatar
Next time I run into a scapula in the field I will send it to you! Well probably not, but I will think of you! What an awesome gift for your grandfather :) It looks amazing in the other photograph as well! Why can't there be an easy science to digitalizing our traditional works? All of it is awesome but I am particularly drawn to that grass. It looks quite soft and I can hear the wind going through it.

I don't know if you already use this technique, but something I learned from a wildlife painting book for fur texture: use white paint to draw in the hairs, wait for it to dry, go over it with a wash of color, repeat until desired effect is reached. After I learned it it seemed so obvious, but then why did I never think of it?! Since you mentioned layering, but the pronghorn looks fine as is.