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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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added burnt umber, raw umber, cad red [as an undercoat as not have on hand red earth]...

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beginning the coloring... raw sienna, burnt sienna, light green, hookers green, cadmium yellow pale....

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close-up of left end...

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and the grisaille of "Metatropolis" is done - detailing will be done when glazing color over it, as yes, am going full hog on this and make it a full color work..

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more progress on "Metatropolis" - next is the figure below and the cat, then work my way around to connect everything together...

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making some headway today - this is showing the penciled area to be covered, the back wall and the curve on left to forward end of this wall section, down to the water level...

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now on to the third part, beginning with the back side of the lake below, now using the crow quill nib...

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had hoped to have this section done by now, but not yet.......

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morning work on the last part of the middle section -

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almost to the last section...

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after delays and AC dying on 91F days, am back into the groove -