Dan Sawatzky’s Blog

Trains!

I’ve loved steam trains for as long as I can remember. They just have a magic about them. I’ve panted a bunch of historical murals that featured them and have studied endless historical photos to get the details just right.

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Fifty ways to build a relief – Part four

As we get into the fourth version of this fish relief it is getting much more fun.  If you’ve practices and memorized the steps in creating reliefs up to this point then this is where the real fun and creativity begin. This time around I’ll be doing a few things differently because we’ll be adding textures to various parts of the relief in specific areas

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