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July 2017

Sometimes all you want to do is put everything aside and just have a quiet day for yourself (and your companion).

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This one has been in the making for better part of two plus years and gone from exciting to pain in the butt to exciting again a few times over. The bonedog came about really quickly (although not originally intended for this particular painting), and the lady was also finished quite speedily last year. As always it’s the background that gives me the troubles. It was drawn, re-drawn, tweaked and edited, and then re-drawn again until I found something that would work. And trust me – the early versions were horrendous, the perspective didn’t work at all. I think I spent a year just working on the background sketches, at the very least. And lastly, the other day, after tidiying away all the sketches and drafts the final count stopped at ten background versions. Ten I tell you! TEN!!!

Size was also a bit of an issue this time. Considering all things I wanted to have in the image and the minimum size things needed to be to show an acceptable result I decided to gamble and choose a fairly large format. End result is way bigger than an A3 - which is a first for my watercolours.

I dedicate this one to who was the very first to suggest temple location with bonedogs made in watercolours. It took more than three and a half years to get there, even though the temple location ended up in a garden, but I knew I’d eventually find the right(ish) idea to incorporate that challenge.

Ponderous note: Not sure whether lilacs really grow in this imaginary world but there was a need to add the odd splash of colour amongst the greens. Besides… lilacs happen to be one of my favourites.

Material: Watercolour, a tiny bit of acrylic and a minute use of coloured pencils.
Size: 53x33 cm (21x13 in) Somewhere between an A3 and A2
Time: Oh so many hours! I spent at least 50 hours – roughly – just sketching (traditionally and digitally) and working out the background. The main job of jotting down the lineart and doing the actual painting took about just as much: 50 hours. In total about 100 hours and roughly 30 workdays.

I’ve been monitoring the time spent drawings and painting since 2011 and as a comparison “Lady with a bonedog” from 2014 took about 40 hours in total from sketch to signing, and the other year I made a commissioned piece (not posted online) which took about 49 hours in total. This is without doubt the most massive watercolour project to date.

Featured here, sep 2nd 2018: www.deviantart.com/artasmoduso…

Description

July 2017

Sometimes all you want to do is put everything aside and just have a quiet day for yourself (and your companion).

________________________________________________

This one has been in the making for better part of two plus years and gone from exciting to pain in the butt to exciting again a few times over. The bonedog came about really quickly (although not originally intended for this particular painting), and the lady was also finished quite speedily last year. As always it’s the background that gives me the troubles. It was drawn, re-drawn, tweaked and edited, and then re-drawn again until I found something that would work. And trust me – the early versions were horrendous, the perspective didn’t work at all. I think I spent a year just working on the background sketches, at the very least. And lastly, the other day, after tidiying away all the sketches and drafts the final count stopped at ten background versions. Ten I tell you! TEN!!!

Size was also a bit of an issue this time. Considering all things I wanted to have in the image and the minimum size things needed to be to show an acceptable result I decided to gamble and choose a fairly large format. End result is way bigger than an A3 - which is a first for my watercolours.

I dedicate this one to who was the very first to suggest temple location with bonedogs made in watercolours. It took more than three and a half years to get there, even though the temple location ended up in a garden, but I knew I’d eventually find the right(ish) idea to incorporate that challenge.

Ponderous note: Not sure whether lilacs really grow in this imaginary world but there was a need to add the odd splash of colour amongst the greens. Besides… lilacs happen to be one of my favourites.

Material: Watercolour, a tiny bit of acrylic and a minute use of coloured pencils.
Size: 53x33 cm (21x13 in) Somewhere between an A3 and A2
Time: Oh so many hours! I spent at least 50 hours – roughly – just sketching (traditionally and digitally) and working out the background. The main job of jotting down the lineart and doing the actual painting took about just as much: 50 hours. In total about 100 hours and roughly 30 workdays.

I’ve been monitoring the time spent drawings and painting since 2011 and as a comparison “Lady with a bonedog” from 2014 took about 40 hours in total from sketch to signing, and the other year I made a commissioned piece (not posted online) which took about 49 hours in total. This is without doubt the most massive watercolour project to date.

Featured here, sep 2nd 2018: www.deviantart.com/artasmoduso…