Seashell Tocapus; Notes

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Notes: hmmph...had in mind to lay out the seashells like the Inca Warrior Tunic...that is an eleven by eleven grid, or some such...and it has the steps...well, easier to see...brb...



https://www.ancient.eu/image/4620/inca-military-tunic/

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was going to make the red part all black...which would hark to the black lower borders in the originals...and I have twenty eight seashells...two short of the full month...one is an abstraction of the pattern on a seashell...and I got a piece of grid paper, and tried to figure how to arrange them...thought I had it...kind of like looking at a map, and thinking I know where I'm going!...but no, soon as I started cropping copying pasting in photo elements, things got all sideways...began with a six by six inch canvas...turned grid on..then opened each file, cropped each file, pasted each crop into the six by six...after a couple rows, realized I wasn't any where near where I wanted to go!...so, just made five rows across, and six vertically...two blanks left over...for my name and title...and, those rows on the left side, will have to do for a hark to the black borders...shells aren't so cosmic without the borders...those were a play with contour rivalry...the new toy I found in the enigmas...was looking at the fauvist, the impressionist...they loaded up their brushes like I was...though different...then I looked at Van Gough...he should have done tiny canvases...then the loaded brushes don't get trapped into 'house painting'...just filling in the big spaces...he does that a lot...but on a big canvas, everyone does...oh, and Van Gogh is just like gone crazy with contour rivalry!...much fun doing the shells...diverted now from inktober by prepping and painting the Old House...put paint on the shutters today...the worst of the prep over...and I've bought half the paint I need...kind of downhill from here...seeing how I see how the paint is going on...I have enough...and all the gear I need...in the morning when it is hot tomorrow, I'll try to catch up with the inktobers...it's five days into it!...

:)

DavidDavid