Monday, August 9, 2010
Sunday, August 1, 2010
in Progress: Lady of the Serpents (or Self-Portrait with Serpents)
categories:
acrylics,
Lady of the Serpents,
works in progress
Another self portrait. No, I am not obsessed with my own image (although I am a Leo rising), I am just the easiest and cheapest model I can find. ;) Actually this portrait has a good reason to be. It is the development of a dream I had, 2 nights before turning 40. A friend of mine suggested me to paint the dream, and here it is. I'll talk more about the dream as the work progresses.
![in progress: Lady of the Serpents [first attempt]](https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/blogger_img_proxy/AEn0k_sfof26VoJ3yVsOM32CsnRZOqGBZQ8dml8MAVNurBVsAKt-6bLEpjQUwi3C_psnyyHos-bSdPf3eb_tIPG-vtBIIFlMJ90xZwRMlWzy8i3WvXGp6EEIQLe72KUyUo5k1w=s0-d)
This is the first version. The detail is cool, but the vision of the whole seemed a little overwhelming to me, so I decided to redo it. It took me a little training to get adapted to how the acrylics behave on gessoed masonite. I am a little spoiled by the absorbency of the paperboard and had a bit of a hard time trying to get the glazes to have the same transparency on the board surface.
Second version so far is looking like this:
This is the first version. The detail is cool, but the vision of the whole seemed a little overwhelming to me, so I decided to redo it. It took me a little training to get adapted to how the acrylics behave on gessoed masonite. I am a little spoiled by the absorbency of the paperboard and had a bit of a hard time trying to get the glazes to have the same transparency on the board surface.
Second version so far is looking like this:
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