Seriously folks, this is as good as I can do. Don't expect anything better than this with a whiteboard and 5 felt tip markers in the colors of black, blue, green, red and black.
Art on the whiteboard has taught me quite a bit on the use of erasers and overdrawing for effect. I really struggled with the back of the turkey, it needed to be darker than the rest, but not completely black and every time I drew it on it looked like it had a WWII German helmet on it's back.... but by filling it in darkly, letting it dry and then taking some of the black off with the marker tip it created the effect I was looking for. I have to thank my aunt, who is a professional artist in the medium of scratchboard. Through her art she's taught me that sometimes it's not what you leave on the art, but what you take off.
That right there was a very prophetic statement, I think I'll coin that as my own.
Some of you might look too analytically at the drawing and say, "Well, the beard on the turkey isn't very long, maybe 4 or 5 inches", keep in mind, this is the Bob Ross Memorial photo and in my world the woodland creatures romp and play with short beards..... Except the wise old owl, he has a short beard...... and the rabbit. He doesn't have a beard, but he does have a mustache.
So I guess in keeping with the theme of naming these works of art we need to name this one, not? We've had "Landing Goose" and "Jumping Fish". This one is of a strutting turkey, let's call this one "Morning Strut". "Whoa" you say? Whoa is right. This one is very special to me, needs a special name and will be erased in 30 days.
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Maybe I am just really worn out from a long week, but nothing in this post is making any sense to me. Especially this part,
"Now if we just put a hen turkey side by each with the Tom turkey we'd have us a real nice drawing."
What? A hen what where?
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