Metalpoint Drawing: Horse Head

Original drawing is available for sale. The price is €600. Contact me if you are interested in purchasing it.

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This is a metalpoint drawing featuring a horse head. Image size is 30 x 22 cm. This image is drawn with 24 karat gold, palladium, and aluminum on a specially prepared surface.

Here is a photo in which the drawing is placed next to the tools I used for making it. From top to bottom: a mechanical pencil with 0.5mm aluminum wire inserted in it; a mechanical pencil with 0.5mm gold wire, a stylus with 1.0mm gold wire, a stylus with 1.0mm palladium wire; a mechanical pencil with 2.0mm aluminum wire; a wire brush with aluminum wires.

When you look at a metalpoint drawing perpendicularly, it looks grey. However, when you look at it with light falling at an angle, it appears shiny.

This drawing was made on a sheet of hot pressed watercolor paper with a bit of texture. In this image you can notice how metal particles interact with a slightly textured drawing surface.