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And the foreground rock is finished [the bottom will be done after all else is done]... now - to get on with the last oasis...

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Finally made it down the right side - now to get the few bottom ones, then be on to the oasis...

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Now working my way down the right side, which will meet those rocks running across the bottom... then will begin the last, and greatest, oasis...

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After a break, due to out-of-town visiting for my b'day celebrating, am back at this, laying in the rear rock of the second oasis... am using old pens to get this lighter impressing, tho intend, once all are in, to use newer ones to create another, intermediate layer of rock on the right side, under the overhang space...

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While the background rock needs yet to be rendered [it'll be in b/w], here's the second oasis...

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Having now gotten to this point, am going to get on with the next oasis...

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And the first oasis is inserted...

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Finally got the lower rock finished... now can get on with doing the oasis seen thru the hole...

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Working my way across the lower rocks...

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And the 'hole' rock is now done...

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The hole now laid out, just the rest of the rocks to do on the corner and under the column...

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Beginning the hole...

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Making my way down the column to the bottom, then will, as said, go back to the left side and render the 'hole-y' rock, and the rest of that column.....

"Vaulting" - 2

Getting the bracing rocks on the left side down... next will be the under rocks of the column, after which will contrive, on the left column, an opening - a rained out hole - thru which will be seen the first oasis [or rather, part of it]...

"Vaulting"

The sketch is just a guide... it a viewing of several little oasi, pits in the rocks wherein vegetation has taken hold, and show a sort of progression from isolated one on left to several on right... that is the idea anyway... is on 32"x40" foamboard [acid free of course]

Publish Post

"Runaway" - Finished

With a final layering, of black cherry, it is finished...

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The next layering is dark green...

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The second layering of the back ground is tuscan red...