Fruitfulness - in progress photos

the grisaille, as almost always, is prussian blue, then the shelf is Indian yellow, sepia, lemon yellow, and turquoise...

Fruitfulness - WIP

 Started a new work, since have been having problems getting the figure for part two of Conquest...  5"x30"

Conquest of Loneliness - Outreach

And this board is finished - 32"x40" pen and colored acrylic inks on acid-free foam board...  so now, on to doing the second board, "Inreach" of this diptych...

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In progress, having shifted to cyan... just one more receding ridge after this and will be finished with this board...

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On a roll - got in another of the receding ridges... now it is beginning to really look like something...

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Progress, getting the middle area of this ridge down....

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Beginning the first receding ridge - this is the first section, using diluted prussian blue [but not diluted enough, as the base of the rock pillar looks as if melded to it instead of being thrust out in front - will decide after the other sections are done whether to lighten it or to enhance the pillar shade side to bring it forth more]....

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The whole of this board as of this moment...

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 Finishing the tree, using sap green, emerald green, light green, process yellow, and antelope brown, I move on to the rock itself, using red earth...

And, for now at least, the rock is itself finished...  so can get on with doing the back ground receding ridges...

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The grisaille of the rock pillar is done, and now am on the layering of colors, beginning with the vegetation..........

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The grisaille of the rock pillar in progress...

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Am hoping by end of the day, this part will be finished, and on to the rock pillar......

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Slow going, but making progress..........

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 The interior of the tree is antelope brown...

This is viewing the whole board, seeing how the tree and ledge are placed... that is red earth for the ledge...

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 The 'two colors' are lemon yellow and raw sienna...

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having finished the foreground grisaille, am not in the process of glazing color over it before proceeding further...   for the leaves, am using sap green, emerald green, light green, and lemon yellow...  am presently using antelope brown for the wood, and anticipate at least two more colors to be glazed over before moving on to the rock pillar mid ground...

and yes, that is a crow quill nib being used...

Conquest of Loneliness - WIP

 New project, a sequel to the old mural Curse of Loneliness... the original was on pre-primed roll canvas, with acrylic paint - 4'x8'...

The sequel will be on acid-free foamboards and using FW Acrylic inks, and intend this to be two 30"x40" boards, making a diptych... [tho might have to change the board sizes to 27"x40" so can get frames to fit - will see]...

As soon as the grisaille of the foreground is down, will get on with revising the rock pillar behind, giving it growth....

but will also begin glazing colors over the foreground, thus doing this in sections, rather than  the full grisaille and then glazing colors...

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And Watered World is finished...............

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 Moving along, getting the waterway down, using the same Prussian blue as use in the grisaille...

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except for the window yet to complete, am done with the left side and now on the waterway - and showing that in a close-up to show the technique using the large pen/nib shown...

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and think only one more day on the buildings and it'll just be the waterway and boats left to do...

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getting into the left side now, and finishing off mid rear windows - either by sky reflecting or interior glow...

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 and except for putting in the reflection of the sky in the windows, am done with the right and center of the painting, having added raw sienna to the ink colors...

now to get on with the left side...

Been spending time doing transfers of images and other matter to my refurbished eMachine, as its files were corrupted and thus lost all in it... thankfully, most is online here and there, so tho many not in its original pixel sizes, can at least get images of what I need... new ones will be posted shortly.....

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finished up the right side, essentially, and am now on the rear block stippling the skyscrapers with process cyan and using the next to fine nib, as the fine one was worn doing all the sky and reflections...  that is red earth overlaid with antelope brown streaks on the lower right, and the door is Indian yellow overlaid again with antelope brown streaks...

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Moving along here - getting the reflections in the windows almost done, and the building sections...  then will move to the open ones in the rear, then the ghostly skyscrapers - then get on with the left side buildings, and finally the waterway itself...  taking a good time, but is coming to life in a nice manner, and is worth the trials and tribulations...

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Continuing on, adding in the process two more colors of inks - indian yellow and dark green.....

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bits and pieces over the board, from finishing the walls of buildings, to window boxes, to florals...  sepia for the building and boxes, with the pair being red earth coated over with antelope brown...  floral include light green, sap green, and processed cyan...

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Scraped the bottom of the sap green bottle, but managed to get the right building colored, as well as finished adding antelope brown to the rest of the woodwork on the lower right...

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added coloring to another building section, one of the extended rooms - this time using sap green, then antelope brown over, with processed cyan for the roof...  also did some woodwork on the right fore lower...

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more color - variations on the sap green, red earth, and antelope brown, and mixes...

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 And now am in the process of coloring the building of the painting - am using sepia, sap green, and red earth inks... and noticed that need finish off the grisaille of the bridge bottom left...

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Getting into the 'homestretch' re the sky - just a bit left to do along the side of the left buildings...  then be on to coloring the buildings and floral, etc...

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Finally another photo to show update - and hope in another couple of days, can get the rest of the sky done, and move on to the rest of the painting....  note, too, some of the window floral has been colored as well - light green and sap green...  bloom dots will come later...

Sorry is taking so long a time between updates, but am trying as much as possible to keep to the fine point stippling, which is making decent photos hard to do with the camera I have...  but will see if can have a visual later today at least of the sky progress [which is across the board at the top and now working its way down the left side...

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A wee bit more on the sky, and added coloring [antelope brown] to another building - the seeming coloring on lower right is from the reading lamp, not part of the rendering...

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 the chimney is red earth and antelope brown, and the building is antelope brown...  using the same fine point crow quill as in doing the sky........

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been having problems getting the photo to show clearly the tiny dots used in getting the sky - but this at least shows some of the progress.. am using processed cyan and the very stiff and fine crow quill nib...