"REcreation" - non-glare photo

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

 

"Metatropolis" - 40

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..