"Patch Work" - 3

"Patch Work" - 2

"Patch Work" - WIP

Beginning new work, a b/w pen and acrylic ink still life, 16"x40", so far in stipple...

 

"REcreation" - 31

for now, have made an end of it... will try a better photo in daytime with no glare...

 

"REcreation" - 30

the background is almost finished with the grisaille, just more detailing with the fore wall part in the middle...30"x48", pen and acrylic ink of imagined themescape...

"REcreation" - 29

"REcreation" - 28

but, slowly, the mist dissolves, and the vision begins to appear...

 

"REcreation" - 27

since the background is a visualization of what the artist in the painting is doing, am wondering how much of the background do I really need to do, at least in detail - as if it was a work in progress... maybe light rock work on the rest of the wall, a few more housing scattered on the rest, and leave it as such...

"REcreation" - 26

"REcreation" - 25

and the ink is rolling on...

 

"REcreation" - 24

having expected to having a relatively easy time of doing the background, instead found myself having a TERRIBLE time of getting anything close to what has been in my mind - so much so that have had to wipe the efforts three times ... am now on the fourth effort - and at last am getting progress