More on DS #2 - some bigger changes

I decided to take some bold risks here, and have put more circles on the horse. Well - that is to say - I put circles on the horse - there were none there before; that makes for more circles in addition to the big yellow one.

I also added some cerulean around the big yellow circle, and purple with little blades.

And I worked a bit more on both of the wolf cubs.
 

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DS #4 (Threaded Through?) - really finished, now

Well, yup, I did some more. Now I'm very happy with it!

 Another biggish circle on the right - with purple edge; some warm orange-blond added to the foal's tail, which connects to the yellow circles; and some green edge/background to the big leaf.

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DS #4: Finished (or all-but)

 I've gotten some extra painting time in in the last couple of weeks - yay! Today, unexpectedly, I felt like #4 was just about finished, as I was working. I added some strings of circles, and one larger orange circle, and then a green edge to the orange circle, and framing lines in opposite corners. I think that does it!

And I think I have a title, now: Threading Through. Still sitting with that...

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More work on DS #2 and DS #4

In the last two weeks, here's how things have shifted on DS #4:

 First, a bunch of bright yellow green added itself around the foal.

Next, after I finished doing all I wanted on the foal, I overlaid curls and waves and curliques of colored line, and a curled up end on the sort of wave rising up through the big leaf. And added the first of the strings of circles.

On DS #2, I faced working on the first howling wolf cub.

And more on the wolf cub, and did more on the horse's eye and forelock and body:

 

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Finished photos of Underwater and Infinity Horse

 I'm posting these now, but I'm hoping to get better photos; these are scanned, and the look of the paintings has been somehow flattened in them; colors seem opaque rather than transparent and full of detail. If (once) I get better photos of them, I will replace. But for now:

                                                

                                Infinity Horse, Interlaced

and:

 

 

                                   I Think We Must Be Underwater

Underwater suffers more from the thick heaviness that the scan gives it. All the same, I love these pieces.

Work on DS #4 and DS #2

 Here's how these two are coming along, since Tuesday's work on them:

More detail work on the foal, and I've added a swathe of bright yellow green around him, which I like a lot! And:

A bit more purple around the horse's head, and tidying up in the strands of his forelock; and a little more work on the wolf cub, which I still approach very nervously.

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Underwater: finished! And more work on DS #4

 Got several painting times in this week, too. So happy about that. Tuesday I "finished" Underwater, and signed and dated it. I knew there might be some little thing that I was not quite satisfied with, as is often, or almost always, the case, and indeed, I was not totally happy with the dog, so I worked another 5 minutes on Thursday, and felt happy with him.

This is the "finished" stage. I felt like the painting needed more energy, more intense color, and more repeated elements to carry the eye around the painting. So I intensified the color of the orange circle, which may or may not be a sun, and added little flaring bits to the green curve outlining it, and extended that line leftwards with some purple; I brightened the woman's arms and chest; I worked more on the dog; and I added the yellow rectangles with green centers to the tree trunk, also bringing some of that bright yellow up into one of the branches. This pleased me very much!

And here's the dog after that extra five minutes...

 

And a clearer look at those yellow rectangles, and the woman.

Friday afternoon I got some more painting in, this time on DS #4. I have felt very nervous about working on the foal, but was able to spend time on it, and am very happy with how he's going. I also learned more about how and when to use my fine brush - I have preferred to use brushes with fat bellies and fine points for doing fine work, and have felt frustrated with trying to use fine brushes for details, but this time I felt I was getting the hang of it.

I Think We Must Be Underwater, and Infinity Horse, Interlaced, have now gone off to be scanned. Yay!

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Underwater: Very very very very close...

 Got a third painting session in this week, yay!

This is very very very very close to being Done, now...

For balance and energy: added green lines/outlines along one side of the orange circle, and around the creature's tail and along some of the upper tree; a dark blue under the creature; more red-brown in some of the upper branches, and then some purple and blue in the trunk; and worked more on the dog.

So close! I think it's time to sit with it; pretend I'm not looking at it, and catch it by surprise; look at it out of the corner of my eye... and let it tell me if that's all, or if there's some little thing it still needs. Maybe something more on the dog...

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More work on Underwater - getting close

Had a week off due to, not holidays, but covid which I had instead of holidays - and was too sick to mind, but I'm better now... So, I got to paint twice so far this week, and here are the two updates:

Added the line below the Creature, did other work on the Creature's head and body, and worked quite a bit on the dog, and a little on the woman's body.

Today, added another line below the Creature's body, worked more on the dog and more on the woman's face; and did some other little tweaks and fixes.

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