3rd Entry for Dec. 30, 2011 (last study of 2011)

On that evening I was eager to keep testing out the Maidstone paper, so I hopped into the last 25 minutes of the next-door long pose,  where it was S-     working.
This is also hard compressed Nobel charcoal on a 22 x 30" sheet. Owing to the volume of shadow, I stayed on for a further 10 minutes to add fabric shadows once S-   had left.

This was the last study I did in 2011. It was a good year for materials exploration, and a busy one for blog postings. By my count,  I've posted 1673 studies over the course of the year.  After another couple of hundred images,  I'll be up to 5000 on this blog.  Which, I figure, will mark some kind of a priority shift for me. But that's still to come.