I swore I was done with the laborious, crawl-pace pictures for the time being, after finishing that cascade picture. I guess I'm a glutton for punishment, though.
I have a blossom picture that I started quite a while ago, perhaps two years. No idea. It didn't get very far. I had it propped up for months and months in the room where I paint. I could look at it as I worked on other pictures. Sometimes I propped other in-progress pictures next to it, and it was as if it wasn't even there.
A couple days ago I was shifting a few pictures that were leaning against the wall and I discovered this partial picture tucked away behind another one. Suddenly, this thing became like a magnet, and I stood it up where the light was good and sat there looking at it for quite a while. And for the past two days, every time I've entered the room I found myself watching this picture. It has the feeling of being a sort of "bridge" picture that transitions between two others I've done, but this thing has stuff in it that none of the other blossom pictures have, and maybe it's a stand-alone picture.
So, I'll start back in on this picture. I have no idea if it's going to demand my exclusive attention the way that last picture did. I don't know if I'm willing to allow that to happen, but what I'm willing to do is often at odds with what I'm compelled to do, and sometimes these damned pictures become sort of insistent.
This picture won't be very big, because it's on a sheet of 12 X 16 inch hot press paper. It's nice to know I won't have to put in more than 2,000 cells as with the last two blossoms I made, but still, it would be nice to have the option to extend the thing because I'm kind of getting the feeling it would have a greater visual impact.
I decided I'd add a detail photo to show how this one will differ from previous blossoms. Even though this picture will be yet another ordeal of slow progress and seemingly endless decisions, the little stuff in it is going to be fun for me. By "fun" I mean: something I'll stare at like a mental patient, of course... Pretty sad, what I consider fun.
Here's something I just noticed and thought I'd mention: I don't know how large the photo is on your computer/tablet/phone display, but the portion of the actual picture shown in the photo above is approximately 4 X 4 inches. So, the cells in the picture average out to about 9 per square inch. When the picture is finished, there will be about 1,500 cells in it. The last blossom picture I made had about 2,400 cells. So, that means that this picture will be very easy.... or, maybe it would be better to say it just won't take as much overall effort.
I like how some of the little superimposed forms are showing up. This enlarged view tells me that I'll need to pay closer attention to the shadowing for some of them, because the ones in the lower left sort of appear to be hovering. I'll tighten that stuff up before calling this one done. (How crappy is it, thinking I have to look at blown-up photos to find the places where I need to fix a picture?)
11-19-14 edit:
Here, I'll try posting another photo to see if it shows up any better:
Well, it's got less of that odd green cast in it, but it's not as dark as the actual picture. It looks like I got the focus a bit better, though. I like how the little forms are showing up, but that one in the lower left... really need to see why it appears to be floating (ha ha, it's like half an inch and I'm worried about it!)... Oh, well, that's going to have to do for now.
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