A Full Moon Over a Pine Forest Piled From Ink Dots

Square 1:1 frame, a centred composition with breathing room on every side. The subject: a full Moon rising over a line of dark pines on a hillside, drawn as a large pale disc of bare paper encircled by a soft halo of grey dabs, with thin streaks of cloud crossing it and a few stars left as single bright reserves of paper. Technique: build the picture from overlapping soft oblong ink dabs that accumulate into connected tonal masses, leaving the support open between larger groups. Give the big silhouettes clear painted anchors and add light colour washes in local hues. Avoid any regular point grid, random stipple filter or indiscriminate blending. Light and palette: the Moon is the only light source, a cool silver glow that spreads through the sky in graded blue-grey dabs and rims the pine tips pale, while the lower hill sinks into near-black dabs; the Moon sits just above the centre as the focal point. Ink black, slate blue, silver grey and ivory paper, plus one faint warm yellow wash at the horizon; quiet, luminous, refined. Keep out people, aircraft, readable text, labels and logos.