Evolution of Circles and Dots ...

Shame on me for not updating on the 'Circles and Dots' in progress. Been busy with it almost every day but just haven't gotten around to getting the images loaded into the computer and dragging 'em through Photoshop. Took some time this morning to do that but didn't get overly exacting on taking the warping out. Digital cameras do that distortion thing - which makes me nuts. I hope y'all will overlook my slackness.

Here's where it is thus far ...
 
The original inspiration for the painting. Metal wall sculpture entitled "Particles" by J. Warren ...

The background. I squirted white and aqua paint onto the canvas (36" x 48") and used a large, flat brush to blend and move the paint around ...

The brush has a really cool feathery edge to the bristles and makes interesting brush strokes ...

Made the circles with a compass and then painted them a dark chocolate brown ...

Some of them I glazed with silver and gold ...

I also added sparks with black using a liner brush ...

I painted the circles to appear rounded, more like rings of metal ...

Painted the first of the dots ...

Painted more dots with different colors ...

Painted a few more ...

The dots all have different detailing; some are flat color, some swirls of color, some are more detailed and have shadowing to give them form and dimension ...

I added shadowing to the circles, dots and sparks to pull them from the background. I'm going to go back in and give the shadowing another glazing layer to deepen the color and give the painting more depth ...

Detail of shadowing ...

I've still got quite a bit of work to do on the dots. Those little buggers are time consuming! Good thing for me I enjoy the detailing part. I also haven't decided on a title for the work, but that's okay for now. I'm just enjoying myself and happy being in the studio.

Namaste, y'all ...