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Welcome to another 'Making-of'! I didn't take notes as i created this painting - so i will just drop some images and notes so you can see how it went down. I don't know how many hours I spent on it... but it took about 8 nights i think. Hope you like. and as always, feel free to comment or ask questions. This blog is also posted at: http://www.myspace.com/scottsaw (comments and questions may be posted there) THE DRAWING I had a quick flash of this idea and took about 30 seconds to jot it down so I could revisit it later About a week later when i had time to focus on the piece i created a few quick thumbnail variations to nail the image... dug the one with the star in the background. Created a detailed drawing on tracing paper and then applied it to the wood using carbon paper. I chose this piece of wood because of the oval pattern near the top - it lines up great with the focus of the painting. The transferred drawing in context. THE PAINTING Here the blue paint was brushed on and then wiped off with paper towels to stain the wood. Three blues... Added the yellow the same way - brush it on then wipe it off evenly... being careful not to rub it into surrounding colors. Added the darker blue stars. I work sideways and upside-down a lot. An outline was added to further define the color separations. Seems like such a simple thing - but it takes time cuz working with stained wood leaves very little margin for error - gotta get it right the first time. First pass at the shroom heads. A glimpse of my work space. Here I added the dark blue on the bottom and the color bands passing through the skull. Added the background shrooms and the stems and spots on the amanita muscaria shrooms. Detailed out the spots on the shrooms, painted in the modified eagle skull, detailed out the color bands near the skull, added the birds in the background channels, began painting the two side characters. Close up of the skull The pallet. I use glass and pretty much scrape it clean after each painting. The drawing... and the finished painting. The next few images are detail views of the finished painting.
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