This one only took about two hours, including the prep layers but not including the drying time.
The reference photo is of Ziegfeld Follies performer Drucilla Strain, photographed by Alfred Cheney Johnston c.1929.
Here is a better photograph pf the finished painting. It's a shame that the photograph never quite does justice to the real thing. There are simply unphotographable nuances like the difference between carbon black (which is flat and dense and very…
I finished the painting tonight. There is some glare on Anna's hair (second from the left) in the last frame. I'll take a better picture of it tomorrow. For now, enjoy the time-lapse.
At this point I'm somewhere around 24-26 hours into this, and I am pretty damned happy with it so far. Of all stupid thnigs, the olives on Rheanna's drink were a lot more challenging than I was expecting (and what the hell is she drinking?). Squid…
Between being sick and working on some photography projects I haven't had as much time to work on this the last few weeks as I would have liked, but it is coming along.
And for the people who are seeing this via my feed to Facebook - this is…
The new painting is coming along nicely. Even though I work in acrylic, I tried something more traditional oil-like approach with the skin tones - building them up in thin, semi-transparent layers. Acrylic has this stigma of being somehow a lesser…
