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I am Columbine until I am something else
Monday, June 25th, 2007 12:42 am( Columbina, Columbine, Mysterioso, Serenissima. )
This picture has had a gestation period of about three years. I drew the initial sketch shortly after we ran NWO: Rome and filled it out before scanning it. Then the outline lay fallow for some months because I could not find a background for it.![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
nyarbaggytep came to my rescue by allowing me the use of one of her Venice photographs, showing a quiet little backwater somewhere in the labyrinth of Venice. Then nothing happened for a while longer through a combination of inertia and technical failure. My ancient ArtPad would not work on my most recent motherboard, so it stalled again.
Now it is fixed and for some reason, over this weekend, I have found the enthusiasm and creative drive to finish the picture. It is not quite what I envisaged when I started out all that time ago, and it is a less than accomplished mishmash of techniques, but seeing as all apart from the initial out line sketch has been done with a mouse, a keyboard and an ArtPad, I am not too displeased with the result.
One of the days, I may post up the sequence of development and variations that the picture went through to get to this.
This picture has had a gestation period of about three years. I drew the initial sketch shortly after we ran NWO: Rome and filled it out before scanning it. Then the outline lay fallow for some months because I could not find a background for it.
nyarbaggytep came to my rescue by allowing me the use of one of her Venice photographs, showing a quiet little backwater somewhere in the labyrinth of Venice. Then nothing happened for a while longer through a combination of inertia and technical failure. My ancient ArtPad would not work on my most recent motherboard, so it stalled again.Now it is fixed and for some reason, over this weekend, I have found the enthusiasm and creative drive to finish the picture. It is not quite what I envisaged when I started out all that time ago, and it is a less than accomplished mishmash of techniques, but seeing as all apart from the initial out line sketch has been done with a mouse, a keyboard and an ArtPad, I am not too displeased with the result.
One of the days, I may post up the sequence of development and variations that the picture went through to get to this.
