Saturday, April 28, 2012

Charcoal of Trees

I just realized that I haven't posted my charcoal piece that now hangs above the couch!  I worked on it a while back.  It's inspired from a project I found on Pinterest... big surprise there!  Anyway, the original project said to send a print of your favorite photograph to an office supply store to be printed as an 
"Engineer's Print."  I did that.  But, mine didn't turn out :(  The original poster didn't say anything about picture size and how minimal pixels would come out distorted.  I got a blurry blob from Staples.  

It wasn't all bad though!  From comparing my blob to the original on my desktop, I was able to guess at where the tree trunks would be.  And, from there, I used charcoal to pencil in outlines of what should have been trees.  The grey pixels made excellent leaves and background.  Surprisingly, I think I'm even more pleased with the outcome than if it would have printed great to begin with!

Here's my finished project:


And, here's the original I used to guess from:


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