Original drawing is available for sale. The price is €300. Contact me if you are interested in purchasing it.
This is a metalpoint drawing of a red fox. I like foxes, they are very beautiful animals. Image size is 5″x5″ (13x13cm). This image is drawn with gold, palladium, aluminum and nickel silver 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 left to right: a mechanical pencil with 0.9mm aluminum wire inserted in it; a stylus with 1.0mm palladium wire; a stylus with 1.0mm gold wire, a mechanical pencil with 0.5mm gold wire; a mechanical pencil with 0.5mm aluminum wire; a wire brush with nickel silver wires; a standard penholder with Hiro Leonardt 603 scratchboard nib.
When you look at a metalpoint drawing perpendicularly, it looks grey. However, when you look at it at an angle, it is shiny.
Depending on how the light falls on a metalpoint drawing, it can look differently.
Here’s a detail photo. Here you can see where I used the scratchboard nib—pay attention to the fox’s ear and how there are a few very thin while lines on top of the dark grey area. Those white lines are where I scraped off the upper layer of my drawing surface. Since I used a metalpoint ground that contains acrylic for the binder, I could just scrape off small areas of it.