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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...

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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...

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

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moving further along...

 

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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...

 

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

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

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

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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...

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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...