It is one of those experiences common to most childhoods. You see some "climbable" thing; wall, rocky cliff, sand dune - in my sister's case the tall windmill on our uncle's farm that ran the pump for the cattle watering trough - but that's a tale for another day. Anyhow, you climb it only to realize you can't get down. That is sort of where I am with this image.
One of the main differences between digital and "by hand" is that in digital space you can, in most instances, simply "step back" or "undo" and make your previous line, color, whatever, go away. But in my "by hand" process once I put marker to paper that's it - finito!
My problem with this - still nameless - image is the space that was occupied by the moon in Moontree. Here it is a circle that encloses blank spaces. I think I know how I want to fill those spaces - sort of free-form loops with some spaces filled with colors from the same palette as the rest of the image. [Brief note on that palette. I draw those colors from my "sunrise-sunset" notion. That notion asserts that we never critique a sunrise or a sunset as using the "wrong" colors. Hence whatever color feels right is the right color.] So they would look something like this:
Obviously small enough to fit in the blanks. Anyhow, I am not confident that the idea in my head will make it to my notoriously - and increasingly - shaky hands.
A few more practice rounds. I'll keep you posted.
Oh, an additional issue. I have been wrestling with the issue of “marketing” my images. The problem is, as I have mentioned before, if I “sell” an image that presumes the image leaves my walls and goes away. I take great comfort in having them here in my company. But should you also wish to have them in your company, you may, with my blessing, copy them from the Wall/Canvas, pop them into a graphics program increase the resolution and size and print them out.
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