Thursday, October 3, 2019

Break

for the moment, am concentrating not on another pen and ink work but reviving and finishing an old mural of many years ago - "The Old Man's Garden", a 4'xs8' acrylic paint mural on canvas... if one is interested, this progress can be seen on the 'sister' blogspot - Visioneer Windows  - once getting this going, I can get back with more pen/ink works in mind...

 https://visioneerwindows.blogspot.com/2019/10/the-old-mans-garden-2.html

Monday, September 23, 2019

"Chasm2" - 9

after looking at this finished work, have found myself wanting to do more finishing - so here is the enhanced finished work of Chasm2 -

 

Thursday, September 19, 2019

"Chasm2" - 8

and it is finished -

 

"Chasm2" - 7

burnt sienna on shade ground -

 

Wednesday, September 18, 2019

"Chasm2" - 6

raw sienna on the lit ground -


"Chasm2" - 5

glazing the plants - dark green, light green, emerald green, antelope brown -

Monday, September 16, 2019

"Chasm2" - 4

the grisaille of the color section of Chasm2 is done - now to go glaze colors over it - 32"x20", pen and acrylic inks -


Saturday, September 14, 2019

Friday, September 13, 2019

"Chasm2" - 2

beginning the second section, with a grisaille, as yes, it will be in color -

 

Thursday, September 12, 2019

"Chasm2" - WIP

copying a lost work of some years ago, and improving on the original -



 

Sunday, August 18, 2019

"Seeds" - 10

almost done - just the water reflections and a few more mini-dunes, and "Seeds", 12"x40", pen and acrylic ink, will be finished...


Saturday, August 17, 2019

Wednesday, August 14, 2019

"Seeds" - 8

further into the last 'islet' -


 

Tuesday, August 13, 2019

"Seeds" - 7

now into the last 'islet' -

Thursday, August 8, 2019

"Seeds" - 6

gave my hand/wrist some rest, and am back at it - 



and adding overlays as am working my way down, and, eventually, across to the last islet...

Wednesday, July 31, 2019

"Seeds" - 5

and the third islet is done...

 

Tuesday, July 30, 2019

"Seeds" - 4

once again could not quite get all I wanted done because of the wrist aching, but think made a good dent in this next islet....


Monday, July 29, 2019

"Seeds" - 3

was hoping to get further along, but the hand was aching too much, so this is it for today...


Sunday, July 28, 2019

"Seeds" - 2

the second islet is done, on to the next...

 

Saturday, July 27, 2019

"Seeds" - WIP

first islet done... reflections will wait until all are done...12"x40"

Thursday, July 18, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 50

and The Hanging Gardens is finished........😂😂😂😂😂

with close-up of left end -

"The Hanging Gardens" - 49

almost done - just the left side yet to finish, and a few other spots overlooked, and then be FINISHED !!! 



Monday, July 15, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 48

and this is finished, with one more, the vertical garden, yet to do, and the canyon left side of the work .....


Tuesday, July 9, 2019

Monday, July 8, 2019

Sunday, July 7, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 45

several rounds of glazing and drying between, now on the grass with emerals green - having to stop to rest hand..........(sigh)


Wednesday, July 3, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 43

after overlaying raw sienna over the red earth, and emerald green over the grass, overlaid dark green over the emerald green, cool grey on the platforms and the pond rock, marine blue on the pond, light coat of flesh over the greyed pond rock, I began adding various colors to the stones around the pond...

 

Friday, June 28, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 42

added raw sienna over some of the rocks and emerald green on some of the grass - next, dark green and lemon yellow on sunlit parts of the rocks...



Thursday, June 27, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 41

seems now the only way to get a non-glare shot is by sloping it - so -
there are more layers to do on the rocks, so not presume it will be so red earth... same with other areas, as this a many glazed painting...


Sunday, June 23, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 39

continuing with glazing color on The Hanging Gardens, 32"x40", pen and acrylic inks...

Saturday, June 22, 2019

Wednesday, June 19, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 36

beginning the layering in process, waiting for each layer to dry before adding another, from emerald green, light green, sap green, olive green, burnt umber, transparent burnt sienna, turquoise, lemon yellow, cool grey, payne's grey - slowly building up the images...

 

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 35

first round of laying in the sky - processed cyan - of "The Hanging Gardens"...

Sunday, June 16, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 34

FINALLY finished the grisaille of The Hanging Gardens - now to begin coloring, bringing this 'to life'..


Tuesday, June 11, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 33

part of the problem with doing a 32"x40" size painting - is that am left-handed and this is done on a drafting table...


Thursday, June 6, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 32

still need to detail and add building top, but here is the rest of the grisaille if the gardens... now to detail, then color the whole of the painting, at long last...


Tuesday, June 4, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 31

finally have a sketch to use for that last spot in the painting, tho still need to redo the roof, and the figure that is seen thru the ring that entrances the garden (which is why it is blank )...

 
that is a Japanese maple in the first part of the garden, and the stone and walking stones make for the second part, as well as implying more offstage... once get the roof squared away, will transfer this and ink, and then, finally, can begin coloring the painting, hopefully before the end of this week...... the figure will be added, along with the rest of that spot behind her, when get one small enough to use - which ought to be soon, but even if delayed, there is all the rest of the painting to attend to in coloring...

Tuesday, May 28, 2019

my apologies on dearth of showing - am having trouble being able to get the needed figure for the viewing from the doorway onto the porch of the mid-ground building on the left side that will fill the space from the vertical garden to the background... if still nothing workable in a couple days, will go ahead and do the building part and garden on the plateau jutting out from off the left that otherwise will fill the space - leaving blank where the figure that looks over the gardens will stand...

Sunday, May 19, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 30

and the vertical garden is finished -

Sunday, May 12, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 29

and the teahouse garden grisaille is finished - now for the last one, the vertical garden...

Thursday, May 9, 2019

"The Hanging Gardens" - 27

FINALLY, after far too many more interruptions, am back to this.....