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New Project and Palette Book Update

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Two things cooking at the moment. The first is I met with Chris from Just Canvas this week to see his prototype for my canvas sketchbook/palette color book. He had a great start and it was very close to what I had in mind. He is going to retool it and have a new version ready to look at sometime next week. As soon as I get it, I will of course post some pictures. I think the idea will work for many other artists well beyond what my concept is for.

The second thing is I had an image pop into my head that I want to paint, but I suspect it may be more of a challenge than I can manage. One of the biggest challenges with Scyring is the inability thus far to produce purposeful detail. I can do accidental detail and vague detail, but when I want to do something on purpose, at least on a small canvas scale it is near impossible, so I am trying to envision images that can be done with what I know works so far.

I think this might work, but I also think it may end up looking nothing like I intend it. I did the following rudimentary sketch and have started to sketch an outline on the canvas for painting. It is a spectre of the stars gazing down at something, it might be the flower as depicted in the preliminary sketch, it may be a pool of waters containing stars or it maybe something else entirely.

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1,2,3,5 What?

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One might wonder if I am simply bad at math or if something sinister is afoot…I would have to say the latter.

Consider it more a lesson learned in what the sinister effects of leaving a window open with art on the table might be when the sprinkler is set on a timer and you are up on top of some mountain picking Huckleberries and well, here’s the lesson…

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I had been working on the above and the below, two separate pieces, one of 5 tiles and the other of 3. One was for Lisa the other for my mother. Essentially the same concept, letters on canvas squares to spell out Vixen, my nickname for Lisa and of course, Mom.

I was most of the way finished, with the one’s for Lisa, they were made up of Black Hollyhock and the yellow from the Black Lily anther, a coat or two of this makes the most vibrant yellow I have been able to find thus far, plus it’s dry powdery consistency makes it blend with other colors better than moist colors.

The first picture above shows what happened to most of the pieces. I had to essentially wash the canvas off and start over at that point and it was towards the end of the Black Lilies life, by the time I went to pluck their anthers to redo the yellow…well, I was too late, and thus, project #4 is unfinished until either next year or until I find something else to use in its place.

Here is a picture of the mostly reworked E as well as a spot that got hit by it being in the kitchen…

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The moral:

Most important, probably best not to store your artwork in the kitchen…but we live in a small house…so I’ll continue to live dangerously for now.

Second, don’t get an unfinished piece of Scrye work wet, not even a little. Water will instantly damage the integrity and in some cases completely wash away your work. It might add some interesting effects, but unless you are wanting to explore that as an option, keep your work safe until it is completed and you get a chance to coat it.

Painted tonight – Work in Proress

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While I am trying to go chronologically until I get everything that I have done up until now down, I have had a few technical difficulties resulting in do-overs that I am not ready to go back and tackle as of yet.

So here is my work in progress. One of them anyway. I started this piece over the weekend, its the piece I have been meaning to get to since I did the first one and was inspired to play with the Pansies blue. It has of course gone in a different direction than I intended but I have a pretty cool vision for where it is going now.

Many of my stories go the same direction. They start with a cool idea but then the characters and other events take over and they end up somewhere near there, but also somewhere unexpected.

I only have the picture from the other day at the moment, I filled in the rest of the blue tonight and will probably do some more touch up tomorrow before going to the next layer. I will make an effort to get more shots, especially of the flowers I am using and the pages of the palette book, but it is hard to paint and lug(really, lug? like it’s so big) around an ipad and its technical stuff that just isn’t as fun when your are in the moment.

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We are shopping for Tulips online at the moment, something I did not get to use this year but have been daydreaming about since I started to get into this and remembered how vivid their colors had been this spring. Can’t wait. So far I have seen a beautiful black, purple, red and a nice yellow to play with. And their anthers…the yellow I saw is making me drool.

I think I smell Huckleberry Cobbler, it must be time to go…