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last update of year on "Moon and Tea". 20"x40", pen and acrylic inks

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seeing the whole of it again...

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and the left foreground end...

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working the right end foreground -

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have essentially done the mid-ground, end to end... now to resume the background trees...

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finally got the left background tree stippled, and transferred the right end of the middle ground, which will be next to work on...

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and yes, need to re-angle position for night photos...

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the whole of it, showing how much more yet to do......

and yes, those marks on lower right are bloops - lid of bottle slipped out of my hand and bounced there - but no worries, as can turn into cane leaves, etc. as to the right of it will be the bridge between the shores...

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impatient, so decided to go do the grisaille, since have the rest blocked out except for the bridge at the right end...

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a lot more background trees to fill in, and rock detailing, but am almost to the right end -

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filling in spots and planning the next part...

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not much, but moving into my imagination...

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I have finished with the color pencil work and am now on to the inking of my next project... this is the sketch done of the right side of the fore given painting, and am progressing into the territory of my imagination... the painting is Japanese of the early 20th century, and it struck my fancy enough to want to try and imagine what would be to the right of it... so - here the adventure begins -

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and is finished...

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ended with blue lake...

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intensifying the blue slate...

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building the sky - cloud blue, powder blue, blue slate...

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finished bird, and the two together... now for the sky...

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first layering of the bird -

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further detailing.....

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now to keep layering and detailing... then the bird, then the rocks...

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working on scaling the iguana...
back spikes are scarlet on edge, pumpkin orange inside, and canary yellow in middle...

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color pencils, 30"x20"...

"REcreation" - non-glare photo

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

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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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