[ D4T4 CRYPT ORG ]

>-Quaere Cosmos Arcana Imperii-<

Tokyo Skyline Night / Chicago South Loop Hybrid Experiment

by

The three from the triptych seem better to try as actual originals and NOT from “angry abstract expressionist “action painting which during COVID isn’t going to find much of a receptive audience. Or even if it did, the tension would “always be there” and at my age maybe I need less of it.

But night time beauty of light is something I am far more fascinated by, have the canvas for, and have the resources for.

I writing from a position that I couldn’t stretch a canvas for the Kuniyoshi “Carp”. So I had to change up and hit SouthLoop IV, and then get into this and have found the below image has a LOT going for it:

Datacrypt Tokyo Skyline Night

hERE’S SOME ALTERNATE VERSIONS:

SUNDAY DECEMBER 3RD, 2021 UPDATE

As usual got even more organized. And part of that aside from having the drawing table close, was getting the big monitor in here. Then I decided to use SouthLoop as the basis of my next “city scape” because I know the terrain. I know the space. It has depth. It has integrity of structures. It’ not the view down a crowded block from ground level that this was:

Then studio organization involved getting research area upgraded via Google Earth installed on Linux MATE.

Then getting Shutter into action.

Then taking these:

The Flying Dutchman, Albert Pinkham Ryder

by

This will no doubt be the next study.

FULL SIZE SMITHSONIAN

Albert Pinkham Ryder Flying Dutchman

Albert Pinkham Ryder Flying Dutchman

The Flying Dutchman

The Flying Dutchman

gfdfgd

Flying Dutchman (1887) Oil on Canvas by Albert Pinkham Ryder

DSFSF

Louis M. Eilshemius | The Flying Dutchman

Louis M. Eilshemius | The Flying Dutchman

GFDGDG

A First rate Man of War driven onto a reef of rocks, floundering in a gale by George Philip Reinagle

A First rate Man of War driven onto a reef of rocks, floundering in a gale by George Philip Reinagle

FDGDFGDFG

Survivors during a storm at sea by Unknown French painter

Survivors during a storm at sea by Unknown French painter

DSFDSFSDF

Storm in the Sea, Theodore Guidin

Storm in the Sea, Theodore Guidin

asdsada

Stormy Sea with Lighthouse Carl Blechen

Stormy Sea with Lighthouse Carl Blechen

1700 A Mediterranean Brigantine Drifting Onto a Rocky Coast

1700 A Mediterranean Brigantine Drifting Onto a Rocky Coast

1700 A Mediterranean Brigantine Drifting Onto a Rocky Coast

dgdfgdfgfd

The Flying Dutchman

The Flying Dutchman

dfgfdgdgd

 

dfgdfgd

 

ALBERT PINKHAM RYDER, JONAH

by

CURRENT WORK IN PROGRESS

Albert Pinkham Ryder, "Jonah", 1895

“Jonah tries to flee from God’s request to travel to the city of Nineveh. At sea his ship is caught by a storm. Jonah knows that he is the cause of the mighty tempest. He sacrifices himself and lets the others cast him into the sea.

Ryder is best known for his dark allegorical work and seascapes, which he painted using subtle colour differences.” – https://www.artbible.info/art/large/197.htm

Albert Pinkham Ryder, "Jonah", 1895

Reference links:

Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman

Jonah and the Whale (1621) by Pieter Lastman

….

Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites (1866) by Gustave Doré

Jonah Preaching to the Ninevites (1866) by Gustave Doré

…..

Illustration of Jonah being swallowed by the fish from the Kennicott Bible, folio 305r (1476), in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.

Illustration of Jonah being swallowed by the fish from the Kennicott Bible, folio 305r (1476), in the Bodleian Library, Oxford.


…..
In his fresco The Last Judgment, Michelangelo depicted Christ below Jonah (IONAS) to qualify the prophet as his precursor.


In his fresco The Last Judgment, Michelangelo depicted Christ below Jonah (IONAS) to qualify the prophet as his precursor.


…..
Jonah and the giant fish in the Jami' al-tawarikh (c. 1400), Metropolitan Museum of Art


Jonah and the giant fish in the Jami’ al-tawarikh (c. 1400), Metropolitan Museum of Art


…..
Jonah trying to hide his nakedness in the midst of bushes; Jeremiah in the wilderness (top left); Uzeyr awakened after the destruction of Jerusalem. Ottoman Turkish miniature, 16th century.[60]

Jonah trying to hide his nakedness in the midst of bushes; Jeremiah in the wilderness (top left); Uzeyr awakened after the destruction of Jerusalem. Ottoman Turkish miniature, 16th century.[60]


…..
Depiction of Jonah in a champlevé enamel (1181) by Nicholas of Verdun in the Verduner altar at Klosterneuburg abbey, Austria.


Depiction of Jonah in a champlevé enamel (1181) by Nicholas of Verdun in the Verduner altar at Klosterneuburg abbey, Austria.


…..
Jonah being swallowed by a great toothed sea-monster. Sculpted column capital from the nave of the abbey-church in Mozac, France, 12th century.


Jonah being swallowed by a great toothed sea-monster. Sculpted column capital from the nave of the abbey-church in Mozac, France, 12th century.

To Do List April 1, 2020

by

As the pandemic spreads the distractions also do.

I have figured out that meticulously repairing and adjusting the portrait size stretcher frame is the best move.

Four months I was confronted with the fact that the corners were bowing outwards and would likely shatter or break under canvas pressure.

I don’t have a lot of canvas to begin with and it would be quite some time before I get more if the supplier is even able to stay in business after the pandemic.

I might order some and just have it dropped off outside. But there will be an issue of actually signing for it which is risky.

So the slow path to fixing the woodwork is the best route. I don’t have a design for it anyways and there are two other works that are in progress.

So I have come up with a fix where I applied a clamp to the corner and it actually fit perfectly and pulled the edges flush. I have poured in some wood glue just on the off chance that some of it will seep into the gap.

I also applied it in a way that seems to allow for a counter sink to have access to sink a single screw. If I get lucky this will go off perfectly and then I can apply another clamp or carefully remove this one and position it in a different spot so that I can get a second countersink drill down and set another screw.

It comes to mind that I should do this with every single corner.

And then try to come up with an extra reinforcement methods such as masonite triangles or some other way to stabilize the corner edges.

I can then plan right here in this blog to go out the corners with a sander of my own making.

I also have the idea that I can now request new canvases to be made that will be sheeted with a thin layer of plywood.

I also understand that by delaying my work upon Silver Moon that the layer is drying quickly and I will lose the stickiness and the touch that is needed to do that piece the right way.

I must also acknowledge here that I might be getting too far ahead of myself with regard to finishing Southloop which will indeed require laying in all of the remaining objects and lines.

I have seen the damage that poor diet and a bad sleep patterns has produced overall and so I will redouble my efforts to avoid falling into these ruts of tiredness that come with old age.

There is enough of a plan here on several fronts and I simply need to engage each set of tasks with more details and serious actions.