What ate me alive time-wise was not so much the detail, even though there was a lot of that. It was the buildup. Each and every framing timber had to be individually sculpted out of paint. To assist myself in that endeavor I filed down keys and other small metal objects to make little forming tools, so the thickness of everything would be consistent.

A gigantic mine tunnel, here focusing on the huge timbered-and-cross-braced wall, mining cars, lights, and sets of parallel railroad tracks going out of the tunnel
Mammoth Mine Entrance (detail of wall bracing, cars, and lights)
© 1993 Warren Farr
oil on hardboard, image 14”h x 18”w, N27
Evansville Museum of Arts, History and Science

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