Thread Bare

I used alcohol once again for the underpainting on this piece. I began by roughing in the flow of lines for the antique wooden spools with a few pastels. I was primarily concerned with laying in some of the subtle bottom spools and shadows and placement of a few topmost spools. I loosely brushed over these pastel lines with an alcohol-soaked brush in the same direction of the strokes to maintain the movement of the various diagonal lines.

The alcohol underpainting

Once the alcohol dried, I developed the painting with many layers of pastel to completion. Thread Bare

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