Backdrop at Mason Park Bridge

[P5se Camelback]

... Now biL, I've got the feeling you don't really need this thread for doing your backdrop! ...

... but I spent a 35-year career representing pieces of molded plastic, formed steel and "engineered wood product," all "hard edge," man-made objects, primarily with markers, powdered pastel chalks, colored pencils and a few judiciously-placed dots of Dr. Martin's "Bleed-Proof" White on sheets of paper specially produced to accept marker well!

Except for the occasional stylized potted plant drawn in the corner of a "room" or small house plant placed on a shelf on the pretense of knocking the edge off an otherwise "sterile, unlived-in looking" environment, I have not tried to represent anything from Mother Nature, nor used brush and paint since my days at Philadelphia College of Art in the early seventies!

(Using pin-striping daggers or applying paint to LPB's doesn't count 8-) )

I'll need all the help I can get :!:

Knowing what to do and knowing how to do it are two very different things!