About 3/4 of the way done at this point... I still need to finish the jeans, and add the tattoo that's not even sketched into the piece yet. I wanted to see where the light looked best when I painted the back right side of her body. I'm borrowing an idea from my ultimate mentor, Boris Vallejo, the tattoo will be half tattoo and half 3-D, a dragon or some other kind of cool lizard coming up out of her skin. Right there between her right hip and shoulder area. Also some sweat droplets... I wanted to experiment with droplets in a painting and this seemed like a good time. The picture I based this painting on had sweat drops and rivulets on her back so I'll hopefully make the best of that look. I spent all damn day on it today, hopefully I can get at least the jeans done tomorrow. I'll probably have to wait till the skin is dry to do the tattoo. Oil paint is a pain sometimes when you want to keep going, but sometimes a blessing when you need to take a break from a piece.
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