Drawings Again

Despite my best efforts I think this is still a page of text and not a blog as such. I have tried and tried to set up a blog page but have given up after hours of frustration. But I'll keep trying because I know I'm missing something somewhere, and it's probably very simple and obvious. This Webador site has been great so far - it's cheaper than the others I have tried, and much easier to develop, much less complex and easier to work out ways of getting to where you want to go. In fact I have just managed to enlarge this default text size quite easily. But this blog issue is a problem because all the AI generated instructions, explanations and so called help on Google are useless for a beginner. I have found no help anywhere, so beware! We will see how I get on at a later time but for now this page will have to do.

Yesterday I worked on the three drawings again. The main stages of their development can be seen below. The first one went through the most extensive development. I overlayed acrylic paint, then oil crayon in yellow, blue and red, and adding Indian ink details, then scraped some of the surface back to reveal colours beneath. This process often reveals pleasant surprises! But sometimes not. Anyway, the fourth image is the final version and I'm quite pleased with the intensity and richness of the surface and colour.

The second drawing, the green one, seemed to resolve itself quite easily and didn't go through such extensive manipulation as the others. It was an easy finish I suppose, and didn't need more work. 

The third drawing was quite heavily reworked and the surfaces and colours achieved were rich and satisfying in the end. Some colours like the yellows and greens, in what we might call the background, were worked over with a thick-ish layer of white oil pastel, then the reds were enriched with acrylic paint and their outlines strengthened with heavy use of Indian ink. The red and black separated the image from its background, which was not intended originally, but was fine in the end.

So now the three drawings have been fixed and signed and added to the mixed-media page of this site. Here they are seen together. Each is unique, and took me to unexpected solutions, each different to the other two. Simple though the images are I am happy with them for what they are.