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last update of year on "Moon and Tea". 20"x40", pen and acrylic inks

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seeing the whole of it again - now back to the background trees...

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and the left foreground end...

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have essentially done the mid-ground, end to end... now to resume the background trees...

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finally got the left background tree stippled, and transferred the right end of the middle ground, which will be next to work on...

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the whole of it, showing how much more yet to do...

and yes, those marks on lower right are bloops - lid of bottle slipped out of my hand and bounced there - but no worries, as can turn into cane leaves, etc. as to the right of it will be the bridge between the shores...

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using marine blue for the background trees...

 

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impatient, so decided to go do the grisaille, since have the rest blocked out except for the bridge at the right end...

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a lot more background trees to fill in, and rock detailing, but am almost to the right end -

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filling in spots and planning the next part...

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not much but moving into my imagination...

 

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I have finished with the color pencil work and am now on to the inking of my next project... this is the sketch done of the right side of the fore given painting, and am progressing into the territory of my imagination...

 

Further composing thoughts...

I came upon another artist work, a turn of the century Japanese artist's wonderful night scene, seen below, and thought of how I might extend the right side of it [and moving the moon to this new section] into a new work inspired by this work, with a seated nude facing the moon, perhaps with an early coffee - which would be the theme/title... in pen and colored inks of course... so this may well be the next work seen here , and soon, as only need do the sky and rocks to be done with the color pencil work... something different, yes, but much like some of my works, and a nice bit of challenge for me...

 

new projects...

some may wonder at the lack of material here these past several days... am presently getting involved in a color pencil work, and with another pen and acrylic ink cliff city scape, which needs be sketched out before deciding whether to go with a 20"x40" size or another 36"x78"... further, have discovered Prismacolor has revived Deco Pink, so can at long last, for those who know of my "Bearly There" painting, be able to do the companion piece that would place the two across the doorway from each other - but that is another color pencil work, neither of which will be covered in this blog but in my Visioneer Windows blog... as soon as the sketch for "Morning Coffee" is worked out, will post here...

"REcreation" - non-glare photo

30"x48", pen and acrylic inks on canvas...

 

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sky added, tho lighter than want, seen online, so another layer needed... also added shade areas on water...

 

on to the next........

at the moment, am working out ideas for two smaller works while letting the large one fully dry before adding the sky in and matte coating to a non-glare photo op...  the first is intended to deal with a lizard, probably another iguana, and a sparrow like bird - the one getting a bug from the other, and theme/titled "Out Reach"...  the other is probably going to be a colored pencil work, with a mouse climbing a hanging ikebana on a cracked wall, and theme/titles "Footholds"... fun pieces with less stress for a change...

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and is, for now, finished... Metatropolis, 36"x78", pen and ink and acrylics on canvas...

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second layer showed crease in canvas, so did a third layer mixing the blue with white - which revealed had forgotten to ink in the distant rock on the right side... which then was inked, and when dry will be colored...


first layer of water......

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just the water, beach, sky, and hair and book covers - and done...

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added burnt umber, raw umber, cad red [as an undercoat as not have on hand red earth]...

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beginning the coloring... raw sienna, burnt sienna, light green, hookers green, cadmium yellow pale....

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close-up of 'eagle nest' house -

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close-up of left end -

 

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and the grisaille of "Metatropolis" is done - detailing will be done when glazing color over it, as yes, am going full hog on this and make it a full color work..

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more progress on "Metatropolis" - next is the figure below and the cat, then work my way around to connect everything together...

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making some headway today - this is showing the penciled area to be covered, the back wall and the curve on left to forward end of this wall section, down to the water level...

 

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now on to the third part, beginning with the back side of the lake below, now using the crow quill nib...

 

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