River City Image Works

I got to go to figure drawing last night for the first time in quite awhile.  I am putting this here instead of the Naked Beast because I don't like cluttering that one up with words.  I practiced my silverpoint.  The little first two drawing were just three minutes, but I liked the first one.  The larger blue grey one unfortunately did not photograph well.  I have read online that silverpoints tend to be hard to photograph/scan because photographing them won't pick up the detail, and scanning tends to lose the metallic quality.  Fortunately though I have an ace up my sleeve that every artist should have.  A person who specializes in photographing/scanning artwork.  This would be a plug for Ken Bernstein of River City Image Works.  The last time I had him do work for me he was charging $20 an hour, but he is well worth it.  He is a genius.  He is the one who came up with the digital images for me of the Genesis prints.  Aside from the issue of the size of the prints he told me they were difficult for him because the embossment only shows well when photographed, and the tiny detail of the inked areas only worked well when scanned, so he ended up combining the two and piecing them together.  I don't think the silverpoint will be quite so difficult, but I do think he's the guy for the job.