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For this piece, I thought it would be fun to have an interactive element. I came up with the idea to draw Grinch with a thoughtful expression in front of a background of gears because he is an inventor in the movie. It was also a play on the expression that you say when someone is thinking, "I can see the gears turning in your head." 

At first, I wanted to have the gears overlap each other without a set pattern, but changed that idea upon making my stencil. I thought it would look better if the gears appeared to be connected so you could envision them all spinning at the same time. I chose to add the two gears on top because I wanted gears that would actually spin. 

This piece also gave me the chance to use my metallic Prismacolors since those tend not to make their way into my pieces. I used silver and gold to outline the gears so that they would have a little shine to them. I also wanted to create texture by lightly going over some areas with the Prismacolors to bring out the tooth of the watercolor paper.