New Canoeing Carving

This newest canoeing sketch recalls pleasant times spent in the Adirondacks. On the left is the first version of the sketch, on the right is a cleaned up version.

 

Below, a close up of the carved detail:

 

By the time I traced the sketch onto wood it evolved away from being square and instead got stretched out horizontally to become a little more rectangular. Below, see it early in the painting stages:

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