The Toji – gateway between two worlds – the waking world – the dream world, the spirit realm. The moon. The waking world – Eve – an island in the eternal coiling sea of the dreamworld – Tiamat – While Eve obeys to mans demand – the spirit of Lilith does not. She does not fear her own desires – she knows herself.
Bound in the state between the worlds – the hypnagogic state.
Unable to move – sleepparalysis.
She enter the abbyss… for sho does not fear her own desire.
She is becoming lucid withing the waking – and the dreaming world, like the fullmoon.
After a while, not being able to paint, I decided to finish this pice :
Like most pictures I do this time, there was no sketch for this one.
Unfortunately, I did no earlier picture of this painting.
I just forget about that, while I am painting š Have to think about next timeā¦
I did a rough and wet in wet wash, for getting some texture and than try to see the ready painting in thisā¦
After being so far, I found the yellow a little bit too light, and the moon to less in contrast, so I added more yellow.
Added some foliage-texture to the tree on the right side, and decided to use the random āsplotchesā for some fantastic bubbles. I wanted them to reflect the light of the moon, and to lead the eye of the viewer towards the moon, so I added yellow to most of them, always to the side they show to the moon.
And so instead of painting further on the leaves, I started on the left side, I was pulled to the bubblesā¦added some darker blue on the side not showing to the moon, and finally some highlights with white, for give them a more 3D-look.
Ok, finally got to work with the leaves š
Because the way, that turned out, would lead the viewers eye (composition-matter) out of the image, I decided to interrupt it.
Added some more leaves, and darkened the foreground with some japanese sumi, and color mixed, to create less saturation in this area.
It gives a sense of chaos and fights the peace and harmony. In this case, it is not just too much detail, but also in the wrong placeā¦in the foreground which should normally just being there to frame the piceā¦
ItĀ“s one of my general problems. I really have to fix this. I will. I want too! Really! >.<
New picture, new luckā¦
To give the whole composition another central point, I decided to add people there. I really love to draw small peopleā¦well, not small, but far away XD
I really was happy with this choice, because it brought a little more āliveā in the picture.
Since me and my wife got a little son, I choose to put in a āsmallā family.
Put in a dark frame, as I always do, and used Photoshop for lightning adjustments as well as color correction.
I use this, because for our stay in Ecuador I did not take my scanner. So I just can use my camera (itĀ“s not a really expansive and good one, but itĀ“s what you would call āokā)
and make pictures of my pictures. Because of that the colors are always a little bit unreal and not the ones in the picture.
With photoshop it is possible to correct this mistake to a certain point.
After all, I am happy to finished this piece, even if itĀ“s not a masterpiece. I never did oneā¦if I think about.
