"Solstice" - 8

And it is finished..........

"Solstice" - 7

And getting there...   one more session and it ought to be finished...

"Solstice" - 6

And am on the second panel of the back wall, working my way across bit by bit...

"Solstice" - 5

Am back at this, having been interrupted on several matters, one of which is getting my old pc back, with the photos, but missing the documents for now, and bookmarks [which are being slowly retrieved as remember them - when get a screen for the other, the Compaq, will then be able to transfer all from there to here, which will help immensely]

and as can be guessed, this is actually being worked on upside down, not as seen here - using antelope brown and crow quill nib...

"Solstice" - 4

All but the back wall is now finished... sap green on the leaves of the holly and xmas cactus, scarlet on the berries and floral, along with white, antelope brown on the shelf and under, and a layering of emerald green over the sap green of the xmas cactus leaves....

"Solstice" - 3

finally done with the bowl, and am in the midst of glazing the colors - raw sienna and sepia on the cattail, and emerald green on the leaves... other overlaying glazes will be added after these are dry...

Tent Show

 Temple Terrace Arts Festival last weekend...

No sales, but loads of interest...

Cremalheira Locomotive

Cremalheira Locomotive
M.Ramos
21cm x 30cm
Copic Pen over Opaline Paper

Hugs!
M.Ramos
www.pontilhismo.com

"Solstice" - 2

Continuing with the grisaille, have just the rest of the bowl to stipple in before it is finished, and glazing colors can begin...  the process of using just the acrylic paint instead of the ink ,akes for going slower, but it still progresses, and will see how it looks once glazing is ongoing...

"Solstice" - 1

 This is an experimental work - while am using the pens and nibs, am using the acrylic paint from the tube [in this case pthalo blue] and diluted with the water from the pen... the basic reason being that there are many more colors to choose from...

Progress on this is slower than had hoped, as the paint, even diluted, does not lend itself to the swiftness in application that the ink does - but progress there is, so am carrying on with it to see how, when the time comes for glazing, it ends up...


All in all, tho, think will go back to the regular acrylic inks after this, and seek to do with blending what colors are available to make the wanted ones...  what will, however, be added, is what will be doing here - layering clear gloss medium between the layers as means of adding the luminescence once gotten when used just the paints in my artistic endeavors... 

"Solstice"

Have finally begun another rendering, after taking a break to catch up some on my reading [and getting the piles [now pile] of books down a wee]...  will post a photo when get the grisaille done...  it is another ikebana, one involving xmas cactus, holly, and cattail... on a 20"x16" board...

"Binding Curve" - 6

And I see I forgot to show the finale of this [been busy getting things ready for the November 10-11 Temple Terrace Art Fest]. among a few other matters...

"Binding Curve" - 5

another rainy day, so got the background all done, using flaming orange acrylic ink...

"Binding Curve" - 4

 Rainy day, so loads of progress...

these are layers of light green, emerald green, antelope brown,

 red earth, lemon yellow, sap green,

and process cyan.........

"Binding Curve" - 3

the finished and fixed grisaille.......... now to glaze the colors on.........

"Binding Curve" - 2

With best of intentions, sometimes the unexpected happens - finished the grisaille, but with some additions... but have worked out how to cover them and keep the balance....

"Binding Curve" - 1

further work on the grisaille.......

"Binding Curve" - WIP

have begun another  - 14"x9" - grisaille in progress here, prussian blue acrylic ink...

"Au Paired" - 2 & 3

 continuing with this between book reading breaks...

And am finished.......

"Au Paired" - 1

As can be seen, some changes - mainly that the petals are now red earth and light yellow...  otherwise all is as before only more so...

"Au Paired"

Having finished my 'monster' painting, FUGUE, have turned to doing a small piece during breaks from catching up on my reading..........   as can be seen, is a work in progress, and here showing several degrees of the progress from the prussian blue grisaille...

Am using light green abd emerald green for the leaves, with some lemon yellow on the light fringes, and sepia on the dark side where is turning to woodiness...  the rock is flesh and antelope brown, and the base of the support is red earth and antelope brown... the flower is to be scarlet, if can get the lid off the bottle, and white streaks on the lit parts of the petals.....   the tray will be red earth...

"Protinuousy"

24"x18" on primed pad canvas, this was a work from 30 years ago long thought to be lost....

Colored Ballpoint Painting

 A Portugal based lawyer who does art on the side is Samuel Silva, whose terrifically done colored ink ballpoint works deserve better than to be called drawings... while it seems he limits mostly to an A2 size, yet he does very well in the diversity of subject matter, even as he seems to primarily work from photographs...  

 It is good that there are others who do more than present sketches and simple drawings, instead elevating their rendering to a Fine Art format...

FUGUE - 26

and FUGUE is finished... 48"x96", 36"x96" painted area, black acrylic ink on primed roll canvas...

FUGUE - 25

And have JUST finished the main part of the painting...  now, as soon as the ink is dry, will cut the 9 feet from the roll and begin doing the wires and birds, the final bit left...........

FUGUE - 24

 Because of the length of time it took doing these remaining bamboo [and still not quite done], am including these as additional updates...  note the complexity of the thicket of bamboo, which was what took so long to get done - as is seen in the closeup, they are not straight, but wonky, thus needing more care in tracing down their positions from in front, behind, and so forth...  the remaining ones, along with the rest of the lower vegetation, about 9 inches or to a foot, will be worked on sometime Thursday afternoon, and hopefully all will be finally done save the birds and wires...

FUGUE - 23

The next-to-last update on this, as hope to have it finally finished by end of the week...  had hoped to do so last week, but ran out of ink Friday eve, so had to wait until today to get another bottle of F W Black acrylic ink...   for those who not knew from older postings, am using crow quill nibs and a staff - not know just which this one is, as is worn down from the usage, but has served well in getting the fence wood grains and detailing of the plants.....and this is the second nib usedon this, but considering the roughness of the canvas roll and the painting area [3'x8'], am pleased...

FUGUE - 22

I see have forgotten to upload this photo... am now, tho, further along, indeed almost done with it, just needing to detail a few more bamboo and get the wires and birds in...

FUGUE - 21

Moving along...  will have to do a few sketches of lizards before deciding just what or where to put them...  and may have to go over the wood more to bring out the bamboo contrasting more, as well as adding white to the highlights...

FUGUE - 20

Am now working my way back, detailing both the fence and vegetation as I go along...

FUGUE - 19

the ending of FUGUE is now in sight, finally - tho the fence is not yet inked, nor the next stage of fuguing  - the knots - are set...  but since this has been done from left to right, despite my being left-handed, thus taking more time as the inked parts need to be fully dry before moving along to avoid smearing, it now can commence from the end to the left, making for less time spent on it...

FUGUE - 18

tired of trying to find others to hold the canvas for a photo shoot, decided to try hanging from the wall [without killing myself - and, surprisingly, was sucessful]...

Game of Thrones - Tywin Lannister

12cm x 12 cm

FUGUE - 17

Continuing working my way to the right end, on the next area and filling in - only one area left after to do, then the ground be done.....

FUGUE - 16

Rainy days so managed to get in a wee bit of detailing...

FUGUE - 15

The ground outlining is finally done - now to get to detailing.....

a question was raised to me as to what a fugue is - so - 

  what a fugue is - [from Webster] -
a : a musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated or imitated by successively entering voices and contrapuntally developed in a continuous interweaving of the voice parts

b : something that resembles a fugue especially in interweaving repetitive elements

FUGUE - 14

working the ground outlining to the right end, then will detail, then get back to the fence and vegetation...

FUGUE - 13

The cluster of bamboo is now outlined, and am going on with outlining the rest of the ground to the right end of the work...  the bit of fence which can be seen among the bamboo will then be filled in, as well as the rest of the fence vegetation, when the ground is detailed - the wires and birds being the last to get put in...

Portrait in Stippling

Thanx
M.Ramos
www.pontilhismo.com.br 

Obs: link to image in HIGH RESOLUTION

FUGUE - 12

FINALLY finished detailing the ground area on this section... now can get on with the bamboo in front of the fence...

Tomorrow will measure out the remainder of this, to the 8 feet line, so to know how much is left, and to plan the fugue aspects to their finality...

Anniversary

Today is the third anniversary of this blog... so am re-running its opening, to re-establish why it came into being..........

 

First Thoughts...

One of the things which I hope to see here is taking an old art form, ink, and elevating it to more than mere sketches and even drawings, which in general are means to ends - and instead have the ink works be as ends in themselves, Fine Art in other words, finished works that stand on their own... to a degree, this was accomplished near the end of the 19th century as illustrators began flourishing and works by such artists as Howard Pyle, Franklin Booth and Joseph Clement Coll plied their expertise and imagination - but there is a difference between illustration and fine art, similar as they may be, namely that illustrating is a means to the end of showing visualizations of particular tales in such as books or magazines, not, as Fine Art per se... however, by the same score, many of what passes as Fine Art also in effect illustrated - myths, portraits, visual recordings of areas, animals, objects and so forth... so the line is blurred, in part because little attention had been paid to seeking to understand the nature of Fine Art and why it differs from pre-photographic recordings, or propaganda posters, or decorative art - especially this latter... hopefully, in time, a collection of these Fine Art renderings can be gathered and exhibited and in their viewing help establish the high quality of composition, inventiveness, and skill that goes into their creations - and as such be seen for the Fine Art works they really are...

In the Beginning...

This is an opening declaration of fellow ink artists to elevating pen and ink works to the appreciation of fine art... to begin, here is an example - "Mother Lode", 32"x40" -

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