Sunday, December 30, 2018

"Moon and Tea" - 26

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

Thursday, December 27, 2018

"Moon and Tea" - 25

seeing the whole of it again...

Tuesday, December 25, 2018

"Moon and Tea" - 24

and the left foreground end...

Monday, December 24, 2018

"Moon and Tea" - 23

working the right end foreground -


Sunday, December 23, 2018

Thursday, December 20, 2018

Thursday, December 13, 2018

"Moon and Tea" - 20

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

Sunday, December 09, 2018

Friday, December 07, 2018

"Moon and Tea" - 18

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

Monday, December 03, 2018

Saturday, December 01, 2018

"Moon and Tea" - 16

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

Friday, November 30, 2018

Wednesday, November 28, 2018

Sunday, November 25, 2018

Saturday, November 24, 2018

Thursday, November 22, 2018

Wednesday, November 21, 2018

Tuesday, November 20, 2018

"Moon and Tea" - 9

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...

Sunday, November 18, 2018

Saturday, November 17, 2018

Wednesday, November 14, 2018

"Moon and Tea" - 6

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


Saturday, November 10, 2018

"Moon and Tea" - 5

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

Thursday, November 08, 2018

Sunday, November 04, 2018

"Moon and Tea" - 3

filling in spots and planning the next part...


Saturday, November 03, 2018

"Moon and Tea" - 2

not much, but moving into my imagination...


Friday, November 02, 2018

"Moon and Tea" - WIP


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 -




Wednesday, October 31, 2018

Sunday, October 28, 2018

"Out Reach" - 12

ended with blue lake...


Saturday, October 27, 2018

"Out Reach" - 11

intensifying the blue slate...


Friday, October 26, 2018

"Out Reach" - 10

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


Thursday, October 25, 2018

"Out Reach" - 9a

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



"Out Reach" - 9

first layering of the bird -


Wednesday, October 24, 2018

Monday, October 22, 2018

"Out Reach" - 7

further detailing.....


Sunday, October 21, 2018

"Out Reach" - 6

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

Friday, October 19, 2018

Wednesday, October 17, 2018

Tuesday, October 16, 2018

Saturday, October 13, 2018

"Out Reach" - 2

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

Friday, October 12, 2018

"Out Reach" - WIP

color pencils, 30"x20"...

Sunday, September 30, 2018

"REcreation" - non-glare photo

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

Friday, September 28, 2018

"Metatropolis" - 40

sky added, tho lighter than want, seen online, so another layer needed... also added shade areas on water...

Wednesday, September 26, 2018

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...

Sunday, September 16, 2018

"Metatropolis" - 39

and is, for now, finished... Metatropolis, 36"x78", pen and ink and acrylics on canvas...

Friday, September 14, 2018

"Metatropolis" - 38



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...


Thursday, September 13, 2018

"Metatropolis" - 37

just the water, beach, sky, and hair and book covers - and done...


Tuesday, September 11, 2018