Sunday, November 29, 2009

Blushing the Wall...


Beginning with the right walls or rock projections, and using light green, emerald green, and sap green for the deep shading, the forest growths are layered in, and red earth and raw sienna is used for the bare rock parts...  there is still more use needed of emerald green for the lit areas on the second from end projection, but that will come when the basic layers of the section is finished...

Friday, November 20, 2009

The Other Side...

And with the final rock being finished, this grisaille section is done, and ready for coloring...  note that what now is seen is the 'competing' view, the one across the valley from the other, a view which carries further the human-ness of shaping the earth to suit the needs and wants of humans, yet enhances what was merely 'there' before...


Tuesday, November 17, 2009

"From The Terrace...


...I see upon the vastness of my domain...    and it is good"...   and, with just the one rock area to do, am almost done getting this grisaille section down...  again, note how one's perception of scale makes for interesting viewing of the landscape...          

Saturday, November 14, 2009

Adding Lush...


One of the difficulties now encountering is being able to make distance determinate on intensity of color - but in this case, may go the other route and darken the leaves in contrast to the more fore area instead of the usual lessening... whether to do this via the grisaille or via the color layering remains to be decided - probably a combination...

Monday, November 9, 2009

The Binding Curve...


Still needs be molded with shading, but the foresting of the local hill is done...  now to finish the last garden, and get the 'eagle' house on the cliff set up... then it'll be coloring time for this section...

Wednesday, November 4, 2009

Coming Together Separately...


The basic gardens are now down, with the lush one beneath yet to do...   will begin the forest on the right next, then the rock 'crown' above the gardens, on which sits the 'eagle' house overlooking all...