Orange Slice

Truly colorless

This is a modestly cleaned up digital version of an old drawing from the start of the year. I gave the original away a couple months ago and had never made a proper digital copy for my records (you can read about it in the update to my original post, Orange Slice Drawing Practice).

As I no longer have the original and only have a handful of photographs, I used the latest and best shot from my photo reel to composite and crop the 2k image above in Affinity Photo on my iPad. The photo I worked from was taken on a sunny day in direct sunlight a little after noon. After adding a black/white filter, I set the tone of the paper near white, and then independently selected and balanced the orange slice to restore some of the subtle light gray tones. Finally, I repositioned the drawing and monogram, and cleaned up bits of the page with clone/heal stamp tools. It’s not perfect, you can see some bending in the paper, but I feel that I preserved the grain and subtle gradients that I remember spending hours working on.

It’s been a long year, but there’s still the holidays ahead, and I hope to finish one more drawing!