A Girl, a Gun, and an Empty Gas Tank - Complete

3 G's Work in Progress

Last picture came out kinda blurry... sorry about the quality.  I've actually done more progress, finished the girl and the gun but have yet to do her red hair.

Will have the final product up by tomorrow :)

Yay... the Evo is complete!

3 G's Work in Progress

"A Girl, a Gun, and an Empty Gas Tank"

I'm having fun with this one.

It's on an 18x24 stretched canvas.  I've finished the background and started working on the car.  Here are some photos of my progress:

This one is a bit more time consuming than the last few. I'm hoping to have it finished by the tail end of this weekend.

Detail Area Sketch Preview

While waiting for my canvas to arrive, I have sketched up a drawing of Melina's section of the painting.  This will be in the bottom right hand corner of the whole picture.

For reference to my idea for the entire painting, check out my previous blog.

My next "Melina" painting

I have a few different pictures of my friend Brianna (who posed as "Melina" for my first painting).
My next idea goes as follows:
Here is the picture that inspired it:

I'm changing several things.  I'm getting rid of the telephone wires in the sky, getting rid of the train tracks that cut off the view of the mountains, and deleting the building (that the gun is resting against).  Instead, the arm whose hand is flat on the cement will be cocked at the elbow and she will be holding the gun upright (muzzle toward the sky like it is except the magazine side pointed toward the car).

Her hair will be red.  Obviously, she is going to portray Melina, not Brianna.  She will be wearing a bare-shouldered little black dress and pointy red high heels.  She will be sitting on an overturned bucket (again, the building and the cement will be gone).

Biggest things I'm changing:
It will be at the break of dawn.  The sky off to the right will be dark blue fading into black, and the sky off to the left where you can see the mountains will be orange fading to the right into blue. The horizon will be the brightest part of the sky.  Because the time of day is changing, I'm also changing the color of the car.  It will be a royal purple (my favorite color).

I'm adding a bit more sky space and a little bit more space on the left side in front of the vehicle.  Since the rising sun will be located to the left of the picture, all shadows will be dramatically flowing out behind the car and the girl toward the righthand side.

This one shall be called "A girl, a gun, and an empty gas tank."
I'm just waiting on the 18x24 canvas I ordered to arrive on my doorstep, and I shall begin :)

Slave to Reminiscence - completed

Here she is :)
11x15

P.S. I hate taking pictures of pictures 'cause the light always reflects off of the darkest areas. Grr. Gonna scan this one later and re-post it

"Slave to Reminiscence" Early Progress

This is the first time I'm posting an incomplete work.  This one is just so intricate I felt the need to share my progress so far.  Inspired by a simple picture of my friend Sarah Abraham standing in an archway (original picture posted first), I have created quite a different outcome:

Here is my take on the girl in the archway (the half-painted version of my progress so far):

Up-close detail of the subject:

This one's gonna take a while, just because it has loads of tiny details.  :)