Drawings ready for three more new paintings

Working titles: DS #5, DS #6, and DS #7.

DS #5:

 

Upper image is the tracing, ready to transfer; lower image is the drawing from which the left side of the painting-to-be is taken.

DS #6:

Trees with a moon, a self-portrait with my hair wrapped in a towel from close to 50 years ago, and a toy draft horse colt reiterated.

DS #7:

With a sketch-painting that's forming part of the left side:

Moving ahead! Kind of exciting!

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DS #2: A Kindness of Tendrils: Really finished!

 I am partly on to getting new drawings ready for new paintings, but I keep deciding this one is not quite finished. So I did some more on it Tuesday and today. Tuesday I added the three dark red circles or sets of circles (at both ends of the bottom, and at the middle-ish top). Today I added a little more to those circles, and also did a bit more stuff to the right-hand wolf cub. Now it feels really finished, with a more intense energy.

Now I'm on to composing new paintings. I have one drawing ready to transfer already, put together some pieces that were really exciting for a second one Tuesday, and got a third one going today, with some pieces gathering for a fourth one I think. And spent time going through older sketchbooks, and contemplating and percolating.

 

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DS #2: Final stages - finished

Last week I got three painting times in.  Here are the final stages of DS #2, which is still looking for a title, but closer to finding one - more about that below.

 

 I added a big blue circle. I was definitely not sure, at this point, if it added anything, but was reserving judgement. I did more work on the howling wolf cub that's sitting in that blue circle; gave the horse a belly line; and I added a string of circles on the left. I really liked those circles! I also felt like I wanted, next, to surround those circles with some green.

 

I surrounded circles with green. Yes! Love it! I also ran an orange line along the bottom, into that blue circle. I think that maybe helps, but that blue circle is still kind of overpowering the rest, and not cooperating with anyone else... What if I add another blue (half-) circle, cattycorner to it?

 

I think that helps. One thing that's going on now, that I like, is that the axis - the imaginary line - between the two blue circles accentuates the angle of the horse's head and stance.

Signed and dated... but I feel like there's still something else needed...

So, a title: how about A Kindness of Tendrils? Or maybe, A Kindness of Tendrils and Equinity?

 

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