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• Official Scott Jacobs 2009 Sturgis Release.

  Watch the progression unfold.

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  1/06/2009

  Scott will use any appropriate tool to gain the look he's after, here he uses an airbrush for the purpose of softening the shadow.

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  1/13/2009

  Using his infamous 7-hair paintbrush, Scott begins the task of blocking in solid areas on the painting. (Why he doesn't use a larger brush, is beyond us?)

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  1/18/2009

  January 18th Progress.

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  1/22/2009

  The process of slowly adding colors a.k.a. "blocking in" to give the painting depth is a time consuming but necessary task. There just isn't any short cut for this step.

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  2/02/2009

  The faces begin to emerge! Welcome Presidents!

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  2/10/2009

  Areas requiring a different technique are masked off, so that the section can be isolated. It also protects against any paint splattering on the nearly finished area.

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  3/02/2009

  You can see the layers of granite that have been etched into the hillside leaving the scattering of rocks below. Every little extra rock gives the painting that much more depth.

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  3/11/2009

  Going GREEN!
  
  With each step, the painting comes alive.

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  4/10/2009

  The background pine needles and the tree structures are painted next in layers from the furthest away forward.

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