Rainbow Pop!

I did promise progress shots of my painting, didn’t I?

Behold, my workspace: the kitchen table! Pretty much disables people from eating proper meals whenever I have a plate to do. Lovely. Reference picture, canvas with underpainting, loads of scratch paper, newspaper… check.

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The canvas with the grid, because I am a loser.

Canvas with the sketch copied on. If you’re wondering, those are post-it flags for the grid number system. They’ve just been lying around, and I don’t really use them.

We will later find out that even with a grid system, I will still fudge up like the brilliant genius I am.

That also happens to be the… what the heck do you call those things? The thing my mom uses to read EEG charts on. Now that there’s technology and EEGs are digital, she no longer needs it and has given it to me. Gives me wonderful memories of using it to color those giant coloring books with watercolors when I was a kid. Haphazard attempts at watercolor, yo yo yo.

I was trying to get a dot of yellow paint out of my tube. There was more air in the tube than there was paint, and so this happy disaster happened.

I think it looks like a pretty cool lizard, don’t you think?

Laying the flat colors on first. Those took quiet a number of layers to make sure the underpainting didn’t show.

So why even bother with an underpainting, some may ask? Who knows. Ask my prof. He knows what he’s doing. (I jest.)

The almost final piece without the border. Here you can see I originally meant for there to be two strips of duct tape but my friend told me those looked like a giant pair of lips. Away with them!

And, yes, I fudged up the placement of the eyes and everything, but I think it makes for a pretty trippy work.

I apologize that I don’t have more in-progress shots (such as while doing the face), but acrylics are a mean medium and dry heckuvva fast, so I had to work quickly. I barely took breaks making the face.

Thanks for looking!