Saturday, February 26, 2011

A nice relaxing Saturday

Hanging out today working on a nice painting, watching Lord of the Rings and having a few beers.  I'll post again later with an updated shot.  Hope everyone's having a great weekend! 

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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