"Bootlegger"

"Bootlegger" This is done in Water soluble graphite. This was my first attempt with this medium and I was hooked. It works just like graphite but wetted it acts like watercolor. The pencils come in different hardnesses like other graphite but even the hardest is still quite soft. Have a pencil sharpener handy. This is an old picture of my Great Uncle Alvin. My mother assures me he wasn't a bootlegger. That was a different uncle :) I've always been fascinated with the photo as a child and imagined he was a bootlegger so the name stuck. It won artist of the month in my local Artist Association.