Friday, June 7, 2013

Zebra - negatively painted

6x6 image of a young zebra which was done without any pencil sketch beforehand; his stripes were filled in using only black ink to create the shape.  This style of working is called negative painting.
COPYRIGHT 2013 Kay Smith.

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