"Mixed Relations" - WIP 3

And with the layering of true green over the tuscan red, the rendering is finished... note the subtle steam from the pot... note, too, that the arrangement follows an ikebana formulation, even as there are no flowers [tho there are fruit]...

"Mixed Relations" - WIP 2

The first layering of the back ground - tuscan red...

"Mixed Relations" - WIP

Been working on another colored pencil rendering, a further extending of the Runaway theming.... and yes, another cherries rendering - seems cannot get variations out of my mind, for now at any rate... have tried a different shelf, tho - the top of a trunk instead of the usual board... I think it adds an element of elegance and 'history' to the rendering... as with almost all my renderings, this is a 'self portrait' - this time in terms of allegorical wishing...

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And it is finished...

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With the amount of lushness so placed in the oasis foreground, carrying that to the rear seemed too extensive compared to the other two, in terms of the stages of progression... consequently, adding distant rock seems the best alternative [rock was to be done in any case, but behind the now non-existing vegetation]... since, as mentioned before, the blue pen ran out of ink, and haven't traipsed to the art supply store, used instead the process cyan from the bottle, using a flexible fine point nib... here is the left side done...

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And the bottom area of the last oasis is now rendered...

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Using burnt umber as the shade color, then red earth, then flesh for the light side, followed with flaming orange for coloration of the whole, with burnt umber again as defining the sense of minor depths to the surface of the rock sections... for the floral, light green, with emerald green as the shade, and sap green as deep shading, and for indicating other kinds of vegetation on the floor arena... and yes, there is a hawk's nest on the top rock section, using lemon yellow and sepia...

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Now that have this, the inner foreground, done in blue grisaille - will go and color this before proceeding rearward... there is, as can be seen, different hues of blue - this is because ran out of ink in the pen [rolls eyes], and ended up having to use prussian blue from the bottle [after trying the Micron blue, which tended to bleed some]...

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And the oasis has begun...

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And the foreground rock is finished [the bottom will be done after all else is done]... now - to get on with the last oasis...

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Finally made it down the right side - now to get the few bottom ones, then be on to the oasis...

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