Work on the balloon seller picture is complete. You can see a full-size digital version here.

(no small version today — can’t get it to resize correctly — maybe tomorrow)

The image in the gallery is a digital version that I made for Jim to use on his desktop. It mimics the effect of being printed on Arches 140 CP watercolor paper by using a colored background and an applied texture. It’s much closer to the actual printed version that I can get with a camera.

Another of the Oaxaca pictures that I’ve been working with is not so complete.

I started with this picture of the old power house in Vista Hermosa that is now the Taller de Arte Papel Oaxaca. (Art paper workshop — makers of very cool handmade papers.)

The blocking for the piece isn’t great on screen:

It prints as an even murkier mess. I think the problem is losing the detail in the shadows in the foliage. I’m going to leave well enough alone for a while and work on some other images. I like this one too much to just abandon it but I’m not making any progress for the moment.

The final images for the House of Mythical Creatures are up in the collage gallery.