Good morning. Only one progress post today. Had to capture some serendipity that occurred. About three squares down and six squares in from the left a blank spot occurred when I was shadowing the cliff wall. It looks like a small sliver of the Colorado river. That is if I left it there. It seems like a good idea. However, the other sliver of the river at three squares in from the right and three full squares up from the bottom was visually disturbing in relationship to the upper river sliver. The dark canyon wall lines defines the path of the river through this drawing. At least that is how it is perceived by most people because the river is always a the bottom of a canyon. It is what we expect to see.
In addition to that problem the three fingers at squares two and three from the right and full squares three and four from the bottom look stupid. These issues had to be corrected before I could push through with the drawing. If I continued with the drawing as is, I would loose the ordered chaos of the canyon walls and thus loose viewer interest. Most viewers would not know what is wrong but would quickly loose interest simply because of the visual discord they would feel by being denied the expected rhythm of viewing patterns within a canyon. This is science and drawing experience stuff. But it counts when creating managed serendipity within a controlled chaos environment.
I think I got the corrections right as I think many viewers will not see what I am talking about and simply enjoy looking at the developing drawing. I got wordy here because I think it is important to know that art just doesn't happen because of talent only. We artists all attend to what is being developed and to point out the developmental problems that spring up is helpful and educational to us all. Enjoy. And of course comments and opinions are always welcome.