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Charlie Hein
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Reged: 11/02/03
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We are very pleased and proud to present the September 2008 Sketching Semi-Finalists in the Imaging/Sketching Contest.
WadeVC:
NGC6826 - Blinking Planetary
Digital rendering created in PhotoShop CS3 using scanned original pencil sketch as a template.
darkstar528:
The SUN on September 23rd, I call it "Four corners and AR1002"
I use a Coronado PST with Barlow 2x and Vixen zoom.
Sketch is done at eyepiece with pen on 20# white paper.
starquake:
NGC 7008 (Fetus nebula in Cygnus) at 09.02.2008, 23:00 UT
GSO 12" f/5 Dobsonian, brandless 9mm EP, no filter
FoV: 12', Seeing: 6/10, Transparency: 4/5, Magnification: 250x
Sketch done at the EP on copy-paper with HB pencil, scanned and inverted.
PhilH:
Here's my sketch of the Hercules Galaxy Cluster made last month. This digital image is based on a pencil sketch that I made through my 18-inch reflector from here on Long Island.
markseibold:
I would hope to see others lunar sketches in the monthly contest so perhaps this may inspire. It is the largest work that I have attempted as free-hand of the moon yet. Thanks to seeing Rich Handy's tutorials. This is on a fine textured Strathmore paper in Stygian Black in 19" X 25" that I found to be flawed with vertically parallel embossed lines through it after I began the work.
The moons disc was created with a home-made extended string fashioned compass and chalk pencil from another small compass hinge pin. The lunar disc is drawn at 14" diameter. The size did not allow to finish details on the first night in early September 2008 (moon date at 8.5 days), so I continued the central maria regions on the second night at 9.5 days, but left the terminator untouched. While finishing the details on the second night, I added the quick close-up sketch of Mare Imbrium on 9" X 12" Artagain paper if only to represent the feature of the fading light at the terminator edge at bottom. Some surface details in the mare area were left out or omitted due to time allowance. Pastels included new Rembrandt, antique Sargeants, and Prismacolor in various white and off-white, Swan Stabillo antique chalks in various greys. Faber Castell white chalk pencil. Minimal blending was done with cotton swabs.
*The two pastel sketched images were photographed with a digital camera under natural daylight, then sized and joined as a single theme and effort with use of Photoshop for online display here.
Observed through a 10.1" f/4.5 Coulter Dobsonian with a 32mm eyepiece. Seeing was considerably good at approximately 8 ~ 9/10. Temp 60 deg F, dropping to 57 F with still air on both nights.
Jeff Young:
The northern tip of the Witch's Broom (NGC6960), part of the Veil Nebula complex.
2B pencil on Daler Rowney cartridge paper, with copious blending stump action and a bit of kneadable eraser work. Scanned and inverted in Photoshop.
Please note that voting will conclude on October 8th at Midnight EST.
Many thanks to all who took part in the contest!
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Charlie Hein
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Loc: 26.06.08N, +80.23.08W
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Congratulations to your finalist - markseibold:
I would hope to see others lunar sketches in the monthly contest so perhaps this may inspire. It is the largest work that I have attempted as free-hand of the moon yet. Thanks to seeing Rich Handy's tutorials. This is on a fine textured Strathmore paper in Stygian Black in 19" X 25" that I found to be flawed with vertically parallel embossed lines through it after I began the work.
The moons disc was created with a home-made extended string fashioned compass and chalk pencil from another small compass hinge pin. The lunar disc is drawn at 14" diameter. The size did not allow to finish details on the first night in early September 2008 (moon date at 8.5 days), so I continued the central maria regions on the second night at 9.5 days, but left the terminator untouched. While finishing the details on the second night, I added the quick close-up sketch of Mare Imbrium on 9" X 12" Artagain paper if only to represent the feature of the fading light at the terminator edge at bottom. Some surface details in the mare area were left out or omitted due to time allowance. Pastels included new Rembrandt, antique Sargeants, and Prismacolor in various white and off-white, Swan Stabillo antique chalks in various greys. Faber Castell white chalk pencil. Minimal blending was done with cotton swabs.
*The two pastel sketched images were photographed with a digital camera under natural daylight, then sized and joined as a single theme and effort with use of Photoshop for online display here.
Observed through a 10.1" f/4.5 Coulter Dobsonian with a 32mm eyepiece. Seeing was considerably good at approximately 8 ~ 9/10. Temp 60 deg F, dropping to 57 F with still air on both nights.
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frank5817
Post Laureate
Reged: 06/13/06
Posts: 3047
Loc: Illinois
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All 6 sketches were winners. Congratulations Mark your sketch is truly remarkable.
Frank 
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markseibold
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Reged: 01/19/08
Posts: 470
Loc: Portland Oregon
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Frank
Thanks, I need to get back to the drawing board; although while driving for a possible 6,000 miles for the past weeks will not allow it; I hope to do something during this near full moon phase give or take some days of Tuesday Oct 14th. I will possibly be at Mt Rushmore by Thursday if anyone has advice of a route. -thanks again,
-Mark
*PS: I meant to add that I felt a little unworthy again as all the other sketches seem so much more technical and formal with fine detail in technical text, where mine appears simply as only an art piece. I feel that I just like to pull the viewers heart strings with aesthetics. I guess it worked again and who would resist the moon!?
*At the risk of explaining again, I'll share this: I was at the Van Allen Hall at The University Iowa the other day; as I pulled out a few of my large pastels to show some new astronomy and physics students and explain the intensity of my observations to produce the art, a young lady asked, doesn't that take allot of time to do? I asked her, can you imagine how much time some people would sit in front of a TV, and after many hours, walk away with nothing gratifying to show? Allot of time? I told her that life takes allot of time.
*Also, this may be a little indirectly unrelated here and not to start a political platform; I was ironically driving into Chicago when the story on national radio came across about one senator bashing another about contributing millions for an overhead projector. It was actually the Adler Planetarium projector. I am sure others in astronomy were listening. Just wished that I'd gotten to the Adler down the street before they closed for the evening as Jupiter is missing from the projectors mechanism- I would have pulled out my larger scopes to show it in the sky through the telescopes. (reason for the cost to repair the Adler projector).. . . Leave no planet behind. -Mark
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Edited by markseibold (10/14/08 09:25 AM)
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