Ending the Unending...

Sometimes getting what is mentally seen can be very difficult...   sometimes, with the best of intentions, alternative solutions must be sought that still completes the 'showing' of the theme...   so it has turned out here - for all the tries to getting the face of the figure I really wanted in this, nothing respectable came out of the endeavors...   so, as a replacement, turned to showing just the top of the picnic basket, with the implication of what is not seen - that figure...   and thus, finally after many delays and breaks, the rest of the grisaille has been rendered - and the glazing of colors can at last be applied to the final part of the landscape [other than, of course, the sky - assuming that is considered a true part of landscape]...

Values...

In terms of Art, values have two importances - one, the sense of ethics which pertains to what is acted to gain and/or keep, and properly considered as VIABLE values...   the other is what is of prime or major consideration in terms of using the greyscale - in this case a distincting to perspectives, to having the distance fade from intensity... this is especially a value [in the first sense] considering the use of so many bright colors of inks - to show that despite those colors, there is yet s muting occurring that keeps this distancing in line with all the other values involved...

...And the Unending.........

With the background now grisailled, have just the river plains yet to do, and the sky...  then will layer in the colors, and - at long last - this rendering will be done...  note that there is no figure - almost had one, but with it being so small, had much difficulty in getting the face right, so decided, reluctantly, to omit it...   still, the theming holds fine, and the not seen figure is implied, perhaps just below the line of sight...

The Bend...

Extending the right side to the corner, it now bends, and the river aside it curves to beyond the view...   who, now, to see it, other than the viewer?  perhaps a visitor, picnicking on the slope, basket beside her, as she looks over her shoulder at the viewer approaching?