More Tempera Sketches and a Transformation of Agneta

 I enjoyed painting these and I think they've gone as far as they can. My main hesitation about them is the white which looks a bit arbitrary. 

Taking my cues from the sketches I've reworked Agneta. There is further to go.

Sketching in Egg Tempera

Today I wanted to make a painting or two in the quick reflexive way that I do from time to time. A little while ago I bought some rice paper. Today I cut up some pieces about 20 x 13 cm approximately and got going. My starting point was a painting from a couple of decades ago. A linear skeleton and then filling in the ground in a loose way. With a bit of later linear working in. Egg tempera seems to go well on rice paper. The idea came from seeing pictures in Jodhpur that were egg tempera on rice paper. It must have been very thick paper because they used to polish them with stone, I think.

Agathon and Agneta

 Today just doing the computer playing of awhile ago.

Editing and flattening the ground. 

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 Grace's life has had some amazing incidents and events. Good and bad. The shoots that she has highlighted at the end show the photographers her passion enabling rich and beautiful visual tableaux.

Satisfying in a sweet way as Lucien grows up in a labyrinthine world to find resolution and love.

An Evening Sky

Lovely colour in the evening sky

The brush has reached my hand

 I've forgotten the name the name, but some computer, brush and slug editing.

Agneta with some computer editing

Dots and a Homecoming

  

Nicely Modernist.

I met my sister at the Station to drive her to her place. I like the random figures in the foreground, the movement and wondering what the story is?

Caine's Hill

Mt Baw Baw

It wall depends on where you point the light meter.

Some Drawings from sitting near the heater

I try to draw regularly because I think that it's good for seeing and looking and once started, drawing seems to take me to a part of my consciousness that is playful. So that mostly drawing in with a sense of joy and achievement. 

Ho Chi Minh

 The best Pho we had on our trip was in Ho Chi Minh at Pho Hai Tien

 On the channels in the upper Mekong delta

 The Vietnamese flag flies over the Rex Hotel

 In the bar at the Rex

Street scene