One more pass at the poppy field

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I thought that yesterday’s version of the poppy field was over-painted, so today I tried to restrain my heavy hand. I used the lightpad to trace yesterday’s painting using a brown Prismacolor pencil onto some Strathmore Bristol board, then had at it. I lighted up on Buddy Butterfly to give him a little lighter feel, and I incorporated some reflected light in Jimmy Jay’s shirt and pants. I then went over some of the lines with a black Prismacolor pencil.

Then I got carried away sprinkling yellow color into the sky, as if to say, “Hey, it’s a brilliantly sunny day and these guys are gonna be best friends.”

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UPDATE: rescanned this image with my new A3 scanner. The quite blues in the sky were nonexistent when I scanned with my ancient HP printer/scanner.