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Submitted: February 27
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Make:Better Light
Model:Model Super6k
Shutter Speed:1/30 second
ISO Speed:400
Date Taken:Apr 3, 2013, 11:25:57 AM
Software:Adobe Photoshop Elements 11.0 Macintosh

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Shakarby *Heatherzart

Traditional Art / Scratchboard

18" x 24"
Scratchboard and Ink
Amur Leopard from EFBC in Rosamond, CA

Final version, professionally photographed. Shakar is going to be donated to the EFBC Follies this August, a fundraiser and auction they hold every year to support the facility. Prints are available.

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~Niceburner May 17, 2013

really great work!

`TeaPhotography Apr 29, 2013 Professional General Artist

This is so stunning!
Exellent work.

*McLarenF1LM22 Apr 21, 2013 Student General Artist

Goodness your stuff deserves so much more attention. ;u; Simply adore your scratchboarding and colouring. I tried looking for appropriate diluted ink online, but they seem to come in such a limited color palette. I'm super curious where do you get your ink from and or brand?

*Heatherzart Apr 22, 2013

Thanks! I buy Koh-i-nohr inks if I can but any waterproof ink will work. It's important that it's a pigment based ink and not a dye based ink (and it usually says on the bottle) because dye based inks will fade over time. Ink is a tough medium to get used to - the colors are very bright and if you use it full strength they are just really unnatural to nature. But it will mix true to the color wheel in ways that acrylic and oils won't. cyan and magenta will give you a gorgeous purple, magenta and yellow will give you a perfect orange and so forth. I have these colors on hand and they work for me - cyan, magenta, yellow, burnt sienna, raw sienna, sepia, green. I buy eggs for my family in styrofoam or plastic containers so when they're all gone I can use the carton as my giant ink well. I fill up each well with water then add 5 - 10 drops of ink in each one and that's how I mix my colors. I always add a little of the siennas to my greens to dull them a little and make them more realistic and the siennas with maybe one drop of magenta (it goes a long way) will be the tans and browns of my cat coats. I also use a lot of complementary colors - if my animal is orange or gold in the sun then it's blue or purple in the deepest shadows. It's hard to train your brain to use colors that don't seem to fit but you'll find it works! Hope this helps.

*McLarenF1LM22 Apr 22, 2013 Student General Artist

Oh goodness, thank you for such the helpful reply <3 Reading through your reply made me very happy OwO Never would of thought colors like magenta would work together with sienna to make tans and browns and such. Definitely a big help! Thank you very much <3