©2008. Worlds Thru Ink, Ron Jones
Date Completed: 1998
Original Size: 11x15"
Frame: n/a
Price of Original: NFS
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ARTIST'S DESCRIPTION OF PIECE
1998

This image was my first drawing of what I call a practice piece. Most artists sketch and doodle to get their ideas and to finalize how they want to begin and end on any given work. My ink drawings are so labor intensive that I don’t really take the time to sketch that much, at least not separately on other paper. I sketch my ideas into the main work by concentrating on the fact that the end result of that sketch will be an original. I do have a couple unfinished works that I would define as sketches or creations where the path went a totally different direction, which caused me to start over. "Eclipse" is considered a practice piece due to the size and the amount of images that I implemented into the actual piece. This work took me only a few days to finish.

I mentioned in the definition of "The Response" that during its creation I had met someone, a woman that would help change the course and current path of my work. Her Chapter is #5 and she is known as "Destiny". She was a fan of my line work and also fell into the deepness of the checkerboard pattern. She demonstrated to me a common line work that I had not experienced before. The pattern has been around for a long, long time and I had seen this image before. She was the one that showed me how to make the checker pattern come alive. The movement and flowing nature of this line work really grabbed my curiosity. The pattern is seen here.

I then added to "Eclipse" my first flaming sphere.

This sphere with the flames around the perimeter is a defining moment in my work. I will end up using this imagery in multiple works and it is still a focus in my recent works as well. "Eclipse" is defined by this flaming sphere image. When a total eclipse happens all that is seen as for the sun are the bright edges. The sun normally just looks like a ball of fire, but in an eclipse the spherical center is entirely black with only the edges illuminated. This is the image that has now burnt itself within my mind. Why I’m so intrigued by it has yet to be determined, but I know that it came to me just after "Destiny" had opened another path.