Carrying On with This...

Sometimes, in theming, only the essence of the theme is mentally 'seen', and the rest is a sort of necessary 'fill in' to ground the theming... in this rendering, "Soulitude", 40"x27", this can be noticed by the odd fore tree trunk... the thematic idea here, of course, was the sense of solitude among the heights of a large boulder at the edge of an open sea... the human factor is seen as the projected platform on the upper left, as well as the implied steps going up the side of the rock... what, then, was having a 'snakeskin' trunk to do with the theming? other than an experiment in doing a different tree, none - and here lies the problem of what happens when a work, however nice in the idea, fails some without the needed thought going into the whole of the work BEFORE the rendering commenced... indeed, other than as a framing device, there is no use for the trunk at all - more smaller boulders and perhaps shoots of trees would have done it better... still, it works for the reason that it is not too intrusive, as it would have been if more intensive shading and texturing been done to it - the consequence of that 'unforgiving' nature of ink, and the consequence of not having paid attention to it when it should had been as if an automatic when working with pen/ink... a lesson learned, as it were...