Mixed Media Town Painting-"Forgotten"

 Well, it's been a minute since I posted, but I'm still here! Still at a stalemate with my creativity and most every thing else. Feeling frustrated and overwhelmed with little desire to do anything. I know many people are feeling the same way. Hoping I get back on track at some point!

I have read some more books on my Kindle and have been playing a lot of Mahjong, so I'm not just sitting idle. Currently reading "The Last of the Moon Girls" by Barbara Davis and am a few chapters in. So far, so good! 

I did do this little mixed media painting in my sketchbook on September 8, just trying to give my creative juices a nudge. From my imagination, I sketched and colored in everything with Tombow water soluble markers. It was too bright, so I went over the colored parts with Prismacolor pencils to tone it down some, and added a bit of detail with a white Stablio pencil, and black and white gel pens. I was ok with it, but something kept bugging me about it, so I left it until September 27, when I picked up a bottle of water vinegar mix, that I use to transfer rust to paper, and gave the painting a few spritzes. 

The areas where the colored pencils were used were unaffected, but the black Tombow marker areas ran and some areas bleached out. I think it gave it a cool look of uninhabitable decay. I like it now!

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This is how the original page looked after scanning, which still looks a little bright. It's actually a little darker/duller in reality.

I applied a vintage filter over it, which helped some.

The same with a sepia filter, and

again with a black and white filter. 

They all lost something in translation between the photo edit and the blog post, but I tried. The buildings show up better and not as smushed together in a bigger size. I kind of like all of them for different reasons. They look kind of like I'm feeling these days. :/

Anyway, that's it for now creative wise. I don't think I have done enough this year to even warrant my annual blog post book or the yearly calendar that I've been gifting family and friends for the last few years, but we'll see.

Hope you are all doing well creatively and with life in general. Prayers for all of us!