4"X 4" miniature silverpoint "Mare & Foal"

2"X 3" miniature portrait in silverpoint on parchment.

2"X 3" miniature in silverpoint on parchment.

"At the Fair" 4"X 4" Silverpoint on 140lb Arches hot pressed coated in 8 layers of Golden Silverpoint Ground

Miniature portrait-silverpoint on parchment 2"X3"

"Beau" in silverpoint with added watercolour

This portrait of equine author Tena Bastian's stallion Beau (@TenaBastian or www.tenabastian.com) was completed from a photo that Tena sent me. I altered the background to improve lines in the composition but did my best to capture a likeness of Beau.  This is tough to do from one photo but Tena had other photos of Beau on her website and that helped as well. It's about 8" X  12" with 6 layers of silverpoint ground on stretched 140lb arches hot pressed paper. I've included a picture before and after adding colour to the silverpoint. I'd love to hear any opinions on the addition of colour to the picture.

Child with Rabbit 4"X 5"

This small piece is silverpoint on 8 coats of ground. I was pretty happy with the darks. Those extra coats of ground really made a difference in the values. (You can see this if you scroll down to my earlier post of my retriever in silverpoint.) For me, silverpoint is all about portraying surface texture. You can't smudge it so, like pen & ink, you vary the line to create tone.