Box was the last in a series of 4 small stippled drawings of family members I finished in the latter half of 2013. I had chosen to go small in the hopes that I could slip back into drawing after a long hiatus without too much trauma.  Instead of merely keeping it simple, I started to pursue finer and finer detail: the stitching in Seat Back and Calle's hair in Surface. I seem to have finally given way to this implulse completely here.  My original goal had been to render the image with the largest sized stippled dots possible.  In this I failed utterly.  But I was rather happy with some of the detail I did manage to capture with fine stippling (the box label and the seat belt apparatus especially).

 

My eldest niece Isabel is the model.  She has just picked up the box that holds her 10th birthday present  at the post office in Mactier, Ontario.  My brother Andy (who is taking the photo) is visible on the left. "Of course you want to use the picture with my reflection it..." was Andy's initial response.  I guess there is something in being predictable.

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