"Binding Curve" - 2

finished the grisaille, tho with a bit more there than intended, so having to work out a 'save', as seen in the penciling....

"Binding Curve" - 1

further work on the grisaille...........

"Binding Curve" - WIP

have begun another - 14"x9" - grisaille in progress, prussian blue acrylic ink...

"Au Paired" - finished

decided to just color the wood grain using the antelope brown, letting the differential of contrast bring it all out yet not distracting from the 'main event'.........

"Au paired"

Having finished the 'monster' painting, FUGUE, have, between catching up on my reading, resumed rendering, this time a small one of 14"x11"...  here shows a work in progress on several fronts - the prussian blue grisaille, red earth and antelope brown for the under part of the support, flesh [ yes, is the name on the  FW acrylic ink label] and antelope brown for the stone, light green and emerald green on the stem, with sepia on the shade part and into the woody area of the plant...

"Protinuousy"

a discovery of a 'lost' work of many years ago brings forth this... 24"x18" pen and ink on primed pad canvas...

and FUGUE is finished...  48"x96", 36"x96" painted area, black acrylic ink on primed roll canvas...

 Because it took so long getting the bamboo done, because of the twists and such of the thicket, am adding a 'post-next-to-the-last' update...

 here is the close-up of the thicket, showing how complex it is...

and here is the rest of the main painting just finished...  as soon as the ink is dry, will cut the 9 feet of canvas from the roll, and then begin doing the birds and wired above - the last bit to the work...

Next-to-the-last update on this, hopefully, as the next one should be the finished one...  ran out of ink Friday so had to wait until today to get another bottle...  so now can move on to finishing detailing the bamboo [seen left], and the birds and wires above...

Closing in - one can see the vegetation on the left... once reach that, then go over the unfinished veggies, then get the wires and birds........  and be done.

Moving along....

Am now working my way back, detailing as I go along, both the fence and vegetation...  when reach the rest on the left side, will then go over it all and erase all the pencil marks...

the ending of this is at long last in sight, tho the fence needs be inked, and the next section of fuguing - the knots - needs be laid in.....

this is the whole of the rendering as it presently is - the hard part, the ground, is now done, and can get on with the rest of the vegetation and fence...

And I continue to work my way to the end, detailing the next section - only one left, then the ground will be done.....

Rainy days, so managed to get in a wee bit of detailing...

The ground outlining is finally done - now to get to the detailing..........

as for what a fugue is - [from Webster] -
a : a musical composition in which one or two themes are repeated or imitated by successively entering voices and contrapuntally developed in a continuous interweaving of the voice parts

b : something that resembles a fugue especially in interweaving repetitive elements

 progress on this - got the bamboo section lined in, and working to the right end on the ground outlining... as soon as done outlining, will detail, then get back to the fence and vegetation...

In going thru my old postings, especially the ones from the first year, came on this one - "Breakthrough"...

and it reminded me that at one time had in mind doing a series of landscapes [and perhaps some co-relating still life] wherein each was a complete painting in itself, yet the series comprised a grander landscape, also with its co-responding theming...back then, too many other matters competed for attention, and this idea got put on the backburner - and actually forgotten...

Time to revive it, am thinking...........

FINALLY finished the ground, so can now get on with doing the bamboo over the fence area - then measure the whole off to see just how much more to go to reach the 8 feet length..........

Slowly making more progress... despite pain in my wrist limiting time able to spend on this, am plodding along on the detailing of the ground - and when get that done will go to getting the bamboo all up in front of the fence...  then will unroll the whole and measure, so as not to go further than needs to...

beginning to fill in the new section... still lots of bamboo yet to do, enough to hide the fence actually...  then begins the detailing......

Slowly making my way across - now into another new section... needs break and get in those wires and birds, probably this weekend.......

And this is how it stands at the moment, about a third of the way down...  for scale, it is about two feet from the bottom of the work to the top of the fence...

Continuing into the new section, adding more fencing and covering fence areas with vine growth, working from the top down as the leaves overlap from the bottom up...

Got the left side of the fence down, and most of the ground - so now to get on with more sections........

Beginning to texture the fence planks..............

Putting some things more into context............

 Impatient to get on with the detailing, decided to do some of the gravel/stone before finishing laying in the vegetation.......

Having gotten past the two feet section, am now getting the vegetation down, then will go over and detail - getting the textures and shading in, before going on with the next section........

"FUGUE"

Have finally begun work on the large scale pen and ink painting "Fugue" ...  while not yet got the mural easel up, have  instead been using the large board, unrolling and rolling the canvas as proceeding along...  the actual painting will be 3 feet high, with white below and above the work, and is hoped to reach the anticipated 8 feet length on completion...  initially am just outlining the visual, to go over in 2 feet sections the detailing of shading and texture once reach that length...

The Overflowing Cup 11

At LONG long last, have finally made an end of this.........

The Overflowing Cup 10

Progress on this has been slow these past few days, but the end is in sight - am on the cup, filling in with stippled cyan the overflow part and using sap green on the untouched section of the cup, now seen in progress... just needs finish this part, and touch up here and there over the work, emphasizing highlights and so forth - and will at long last have made an end of this...

The Overflowing Cup 9

Finished layering the red earth acrylic ink over the stone shelf, and am in the midst of layering process cyan to the overflow of the cup... there will be more layers to the shelf, so to bring it out more in intensity, the same with the tray and base of the bonsai... then the grisaille of the cup will begin, and coloring after, thus, hopefully, to end this ink painting...

The Overflowing Cup 8

Been stippling away at the curtain, finally finishing that last evening, and today managed a start on the shelf coloring, with red earth acrylic ink...

The Overflowing Cup 7

Was raining off and on yesterday, so managed to get in a bit more on the curtain... is slow going, but becoming more steady, and when this part is done, the whole will look much more to the completed stage...

The Overflowing Cup 6

Finished with the folded section, am now in the process of getting the rest of the curtain down... one thing to note - the curtain, indeed all of this rendering, is in a formal fashion, and this is deliberate, not as a means of least resistance with the stippling, for it plays to the metaphoric theming, as much as also a parody of the seemingness of the tree[being offhandedly given the alternate title of 'The Bishop's Blessing']... as with almost all my works, there is much more to this one than at first meets the eye...

The Overflowing Cup 5

Progress... despite a cold over the past weekend, which hindered doing much of anything [and, fortunately, is clearing faster than had hoped], still stippling away... and tho not completed the fold section, decided to do some on the rest, to see how the curtain total would look...

The Overflowing Cup 4

A bit of progress on this - for some reason, the hand/wrist was not as bothersome... note the size of the nib being used to color the curtain...

The Overflowing Cup 3

Have finished off the grisaille of the shelf, and am on coloring the curtain, using FW raw sienna acrylic ink...

re - Heritage

originally it was to be a more complex work, with this as being on the right a wee, and another object, a photo of ancestors in an ornate frame on the other side... but could not find good source material to use for the oldtime photo imitation, so went with this in a smaller size... the image was deliberately vague so could be used to show a female or male child with an even more vague person aside... had just finished the Auel books, and so the idea of the bone handled ladle appealed to me, to see if could imagine such a thing... and it seemed to work all around, making for a nice small painting in b/w...

a further note, in case not considered - heritage can be from the past, OR beginning now into the future [one way of looking at the youngster in reflection]...

Heritage

Finally got a photo of my rendering, Heritage... acrylic black ink on 7"x5" Stonehenge pad paper, stippled with crow quill nib... like most all my works, this is out of my head, picturing an antique bone handled ladle reflecting an imagined young person...

The Overflowing Cup 2

For those interested, this is what am having to put up with for the time being, the consequence of falling out of a van and, in catching the fall, compacted my left wrist [which, of course, is my art hand]... while it is healing, there is nerve stress on the outside edge, especially when stippling for any length of time, so am bracing it with a bamboo rice paddle and an elastic bandage... will probably get one of those braces used for those with carpal tunnel syndrome and see if it helps more, but this is it for the time being... at least can get on with the rendering...

The Overflowing Cup 1

A wee bit further along... been working on getting more of the lost files found for the pc, so not as much time on this as would have liked... when this column is done, the pencil marks will be erased, and further thinning out will be added...

The Overflowing Cup

Since I again have access to a computer, am again doing a work in progress of the present rendering... since it began during the time of no access, there was no way to save early photos, so is starting in midstream as it were...

The grisaille is prussian blue, the tree is antelope brown, with black underneath in the burnt area, and the container is sap green with light green for highlights - with processed cyan for the curtain fold...

I Have Returned.....

After a too long a wait, have finally acquired a pc, so can once again be adding to this blog... many thanks to those who inquired as to my absence and stayed loyal to the blog, knowing I would return as soon as was able... am in the midst of a new work, The Overflowing Cup, and will be posting photos of the work in progress as soon as get the rest of the pc operating...

I should add, for those who are in my area [Tampa], am having several of my works in exhibit over at the Kaleisia tea lounge, on Fletcher, off of 15th Street...