Once the drawing, the pastel, and the gessoed panel were all ready to come together, I placed the drawing carefully, conte-side down, on the board.  To keep it from shifting around and messing up my transfer (don’t want it to come out looking like a Picasso, this<\/i> time), I used some removable drafting tape<\/a> to make some little “leashes”, using strips of paper taped to the back, folded over and taped to 3 places on the front of the drawing.  You can see two of them ready at the top of the panel above.  Like this >><\/p>\n

That’s where I am right now.  After that, we took the dogs for a walk, and now it’s time for dinner (I think Mexican, tonight, even though we forgot to get avocados!  Horrors!)<\/p>\n

Thanks for looking!<\/p>\n

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