Crater Clavius
By Ivan Curtis (Clavius Crater)
- June 27th, 2012
- Posted in Charcoal . crater . Moon . White Paper
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Crater Clavius
This sketch is of the 220km diameter crater Clavius, which is near the lunar South Pole. The orientation of this sketch is is with North to the bottom, so the crater Rutherford is at the top left, and Porter is at the bottom left.
The sketch was done from a photo taken in Adelaide, South Australia, on 2012-05-30, when the moon was 67% illuminated. The telescope was a 150mm SCT.
Medium is charcoal on white paper.
-Ivan
Wonderful job! I love the shadows with the brightness.
You have very fine artistic skills.
Frank
Wow, this is Beautiful and realist of the sketch:))
@JayinUT
Thank you Javin. I like to sketch craters when there are bold shadows, so waited for this phase before tackling this subject.
Frank and Daniel, thank you for the kind comments.
-Ivan