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finished this section of the background grisaille, and now on the foreground area... at least until can get more processed cyan...

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had a stroke, as more tests attest, so am  on blood thinners for awhile, and having physical therapy for a couple  weeks to help regain muscle control... and am back to painting... as such, finished the gravel part of the background to left of the floral rock, and be on to the same on the right side, coming to where the ground rises to the foreground level...

AND actually did more -

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more stippling gravel, adding to stone wall, and grass...

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more work on the background, stone wall and gravel -

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back to the gravel stippling, tho is so low on the easel am on the floor with bent legs...

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managed a fair bit more today - rainy and cool outside, comfortable inside, with good music on the classical station...

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more moving along with the stippling -

the rocks may seem light, but is the flashlight glare...

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into the foreground stippling of gravel, which is taking seemingly forever to cover the area...

it is hard on my damaged wrist, actually, as am having to turn the hand more left/vertical to achieve the angle needed (besides which am much more used to laying the hand/arm on the drafting table instead of holding all upright on the vertical)...

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moving along... slow, because am not used to holding the brush to work on an easel, as used to hold brushes and pens on a sloping drafting table by resting the arm on the table... so is taking a bit of time to adjust to the once used form from long ago...

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beginning the grisaille into new areas... yellow overhead light...

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further wiping and adding in with pencil of the bonsai table and a rock garden below steps -

am not worried over the slight seen thru of old paint, as it will all be buried when new paint is laid on top...

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the secondary building for getaway or teahouse -

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further alterations of "The Old Man's Garden" ... now can pencil in the better view of the background...

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One of the things I am finding in trying to finish an old work, especially back in the early stages of my development of themescaping, is fully grasping the concept and its many visualizations that fulfill possibilities... in this case, it seems the initial understanding was far too simplified for such a scale as this mural of "The Old Man's Garden"... in consequence, the intervening years, having gained more understanding of the process of structuring a painting to more fully express the theme involved, am having to alter a number of areas in this work - which is good, with the end result being a work more coherent in expressing the visualization of the theme/title... to begin with, the 'valley' between the left foreground and the right area with the tree will be eliminated, the drop off to the left of the tree also eliminated, and a set of buildings will be erected in the place, along with more gardening - in this way both sides will be joined in unison instead of what amounts to two separate paintings... while is true I could take the time to go thru my old files, my journal papers, to see if wrote anything regarding the specifics of this work, even possibly why abandoned it, I think this approach will be more fruitful... so now I need to develop those visualizations and fill them in after wiping out the old areas... why those areas in the first place? I suspect it was painting on the fly as it were, intuitively, instead of cogitating it more thoughtfully, especially since the whole of it was from imagination....

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finding the right figure to use as trhe old man, has not been easy, but am sketching something that might end up working, using, oddly, a selfie............

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have rediscovered an unfinished work of mine from the years probably early 90s, called "The Old Man's Garden", with several figures lightly grisailled, one penciled, and the one of the old man yet to be entered... originally thought the tree was too domineering and, because of other events in my life, just dropped further work on it... now, having a fresh, as it were, look at it, have decided to complete it, needing only the man figure to sketch out and insert, then finish the grisaille, and then glaze the colors all over... 4'x8', acrylic on canvas -

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after looking at this finished work, have found myself wanting to do more finishing - so here is the enhanced finished work of Chasm2 -

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and it is finished -

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 burnt sienna on the shade ground -

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raw sienna on the lit ground -

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glazing the plants - dark green, light green, emerald green, antelope brown -

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the grisaille of the color section of Chasm2 is done - now to go glaze colors over it - 32"x20", pen and acrylic inks -

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further work -

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beginning the second section, with a grisaille, as yes, it will be in color -

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copying a lost work of some years ago, and improving on the original -

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almost done - just the water reflections and a few more mini-dunes, and "Seeds", 12"x40", pen and acrylic ink, will be finished...

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and into the last 'islet' -

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gave my hand/wrist some rest, and am back at it -

and adding overlays as am working my way down, and, eventually, across to the last islet...

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and the third islet is done...

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once again could not quite get all I wanted done because of the wrist aching, but think made a good dent in this next islet....

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was hoping to get further along, but the hand was aching too much, so this is it for today...

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the second islet is done, on to the next...

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first islet done... reflections will wait until all are done...12"x40"

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and The Hanging Gardens is finished..........😂😂😂😂😂

and here is close-up of left end -

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almost done - just the left side yet to finish, and a few other spots overlooked, and then be FINISHED !! !

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and this is finished, with one more, the vertical garden, yet to do, and the canyon left side of the work .....

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two more down.......