SteemDecathlon Contest: Prize: 10 Steem to the first person that figures the puzzle out....My Steem Art Part 2

To enter the contest read the article and answer the question, if you upvote the post I will put an upvote on your comment.

Everyone seemed to really enjoy the last time I did this and I don't mind showing off a work so I figured it was time to run it again!

Here's the Backstory:
Over the 17 monts, not week went by that I did not do at least 5 pieces of art for use on the Steem Blockchain,
From Drawing contests,. Submissions for adverting, Blog Banners for myself andothers, taglines, modified cartoons of others (derived art that was correctly credited), articles, meme's with more than words, signage, separators, borders, animations.... No top of that I have alot of non-digital Art...In addition I also cleanup images for friends blog posts and for me to sell product. And take pictures of recipes so others can see how good and easy it is to make healthy tasty inviting food choices.

All told conservatively at 5 a week, that meant I made over 350 pieces of Art!
Considering I was Blogging, programming, investing and doing other things...
That's Pretty goddamn impressive, if I do say so myself and I do....

Yea that's me showing my ugly mug and art off.
I can laugh at myself unlike a unnamed crying baby whiner despot-wanna-be abortion that's sitting in our White House.
That calls for a Meme (JUST MADE):

Ahhh, I feel better getting that off my chest! On to more fun stuff!

Since everyone seemed interested in viewing my paintings I posted (that weren't done in the last year), I figured I'd include another piece of work that taught me something.

But first it wouldn't be a fun romp through my mind with out some detailed back story....So get your therapist couches and notepads out. I'll lie down and cough up my thoughts as you judge me!

My art is based on my attention to detail mixed with creativity. And I got that training way back growing up as a preteen and then learning about the craft through high school and college.
The ability to express one self through a compendium of small details really came into focus when I was using pen and ink. Unlike other mediums, you mess up with crow quill pen or technical drawing pen... there is no erasing or hiding what you've done. Indian Ink is permanent! That's why diplomas and parchment have been written with it for a 3000 years!

I was asked to do a free draw in Scarsdale High School for a project in art class by my favorite Professor/Mentor growing up Mr. Lieneck. Great teacher that inspired me and many others to use not just the Art side of our brains but the mathematical and verbal. A truly great asset to all that were fortunate to take his classes or belong to the groups he worked with.

I had just seen M.K. Escher and was inspired by his free form flowing items merging from one to another.

I also loved Salvador Dali. work with items strewn about and all having meaning:

So I got the stupid idea, rather than do a small 5x8 half sheet of Paper and get done in a week. I decided to go whole hog and do a 36x24 massive piece and to top it off, instead of 1 subject, I was going to do a free form of consciousness.
The reason one does small pen and inks is because doing thinks like shading with dots and small light lines can literally take hours for a couple square inches. And you have to be careful, one splotch and you might as well cover the section in a black background with a wide brush.

Here's what I came up with...Why did I put a red block on this photo here? More on that later.

(click on the image to view it large to see details)
It took me over a 1.5 years to get it to this state! And then my Mom had it framed (she thought others should see it).
Actually it was far from done...I could have worked on it for another 2 years! But it's good I let her do it.
I learned later when taking Oil Painting classes in College, you can literally go forever refining a piece.
And you need to pick a reasonable stopping point so you get to your other ideas.

That's essentially how I have tried to live my life since then I did not quantify it to later.
Efficiency is not always the perfect solution Efficacy should be! After all the last 10% of something can
take up 90% of your time and resources, so if you can say it's good enough to get done what you need and save the time. money and anguish. That's what you should do. Just remember that doesn't mean prograstinate and don't do stuff at all. And there are times when absolute Efficency are needed. Just remember the saying "The Perfect Should Not be the Enemy of the Good". Just my world view!

For a great article discussing that saying read here:
https://jeff-for-progress.blogspot.com/2009/11/in-defense-of-foxhog-perfect-should-not_8701.html

Enough backstory on to the Art...

Let's start with some recent Blog Banners done for new members of the Steeminati:

The interesting thing About this one is the photos depicted in this were all were made by me or my employees at Arkahdia Arts Studio.

And the image for Ron's (@lordoffaux) account is actually a mozart bust we used to manufacture with an Antique Silver finish.

of course I don't just make banners for blog headers, I've been making then for members of the Steeminati and others based on their directions.

And of course my own, which by the way I drew first my own left hand and then converted it to digital form.

I've produced art for the contests on Steem like @deemarshall great ArtStorm (where I first sketch based on the subject matter)

refine a little

and then scan do online editing, drawing, conversions and layering to make my submission:

I've gotten pretty good at using edit software of the years (as evidenced by this horrible picture of me that I fixed up....

I was leaning over so it looked like I had no neck and an oxygen tube was falling out.... thankfully I no how to cut paste , blend and lighten and darken!

Of course this has made it very easy to add stuff to images for the memeday and memechallenge: contests:

of course I've done some nice pieces for events on the Blockchain I thought were worthy

for @paulag at her great redfish league (I suggest you try it out)

For @fibra59's long running laughter induced weekly meme contest.

for the different contests put on by @rentmoney

For my weekly meme contest (enter monday thru friday)

And there has been a whole lot of signage for giveaways and actions:

I'm sure that's enough for now... there's alot more to come...but I want the impact to be better....

Time for the Contest:

The rules are simple:
And anyone in my family or was there when I did the answer to the question is disqualified from the prize. (obviously)
There is only 1 question
You get 1 guess at the correct answer.
Place your answer to the following question in a comment.
The under the red box I placed on the pen and ink drawing there are a few items, one of which is completely covered.
What is under the box?

Over the course of the week members of the Steeminati will be upvoting commenters and contestants!

The first person answering correctly wins the contest.
If no one gets it right I will give it to the closest contestants.
I will announce the winner on saturday and there will be a new art contest giveaway then.
the first person to answer the question correctly by the time stamp wins the 10 Steem.
Simple.... Make sure your answer is precise...A few words are good enough.....

If there are valiant efforts I will definitely reward them!

Need a banner or sign or some other creative... I'm cheap, the more I like your idea the less I charge ...EVEN FREE FOR WORTHY ENDEAVORS. Of cours the one caveat I get to run with your idea, andabsolutely no micro managing....
Prices usually between 10 and 50.