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...

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

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

demise, not -- computer been down