"Clear In the Air"

A new rendering to be, one of pen/ink, and showing an outdoor faucet, with a drop of water on the end, which reflects a view...  a question to think on - what view could/should/would best be shown?

Update 5...

For the wood plate, for a pecan wood look - sand, goldenrod, sepia and verithin dark brown... 

Note that the listing of these colors used is in the order they are laid down, generally working from light to dark...

Update 4....

And the rest of the cherries and coins...

Update 3....

Stem - chartreuse, white, dark green, verithin dark brown...

Cherry - poppy red, white, crimson red, verithin crimson red...

Coin - Poly white, lemon yellow, yellow ochre, bronze, dark brown, verithin dark brown...

Update 2...

And here's with the back ground section grisailled... it is a little on the rough side, but wanted most to get the valuing down, and the smoothing can be with the other layered colors...  it used most of a new indigo blue, leaving me with less than a 3 inch stub...

Update...

The bottom part of the cloth now done - next is the back ground part...

"Coffer"

 And here's my latest WIP, 20"x30", colored pencil on Stonehenge paper...  the grisaille is being done in indigo blue...   what it shows is a wood plate with cherries [yes - sigh - another cherries one] and a couple outsiders on the right among coins...   there is a cloth covering the background and over the shelf to down in front...

Context and the Failed Notion...

Sometimes I have found that in the midst of many ideas which seemingly flow thru me, not all are of the same sense of life as had always presumed...   perhaps this is a consequence of living alone too much, or perhaps a growing cynicism of how the politics are in this country, or perhaps a jading sense of any of a number of things...   the point is, tho, that these are all moments out of context, not the usual, and pass as fleas dying in the cold...   usually, tho, these less than sterling theme/titles are caught at the outset and discarded without a moment's thought - but now, it seems, an exception came up, tantalizing in its creation, and camouflaged by the bright colors that the composition would have...   it was only on reflection, mulling over a satirical aspect of it, that I came to see the whole as not satire so much as sarcasm, a distinct difference, and which then put this [it was a still life] in the same category as many such of bygone eras as are in museums over the world - annointing the 'frailties of life' , the 'impermanence' of being, of 'destruction' as the norm...

Something so different from my sense of life....

No, I will not name this - and indeed it never got to beyond mental composing, so no paper was wasted over it [I will, however, keep the theme/title, and seeing if later can constructively turn it to its proper, life-enhancing venue], but it has served as a wake-up call to complacency, and a need I see of being more careful of what flushes forth as fruit from the apple tree, that some have worms in them...

and life, lesson learned, goes on...

My Bigger Back Yard... Finished

And it is done - an alternate one from what was originally conceived [the sky is different], but still as per the theme, which is what, all in all, is of importance...

Bigger yard 53.....

And except for the picnic basket and sky, and some touching up, am essentially done with this...

Bigger yard 52.....

Beginning the distance coloring, layering turquoise blue [Liquitex] and raw sienna, with some beginning use of emerald green...