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Latest Painting In Progress - “Vast & Complicated & Ridiculous” (Doctor Who)

Not related to tonights finale - but a picture I’ve been meaning to paint for a while. There were one or two scenes from tonight’s episode that I’m going to paint next week, but this one was shouting at me :)

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Just a few tiny details left - almost done!

OMG IT’S FINISHED. But there’s still another week of school *cry*

**Helpful hint: Don’t varnish your paintings before you scan/photograph them!**

Omigosh, this underpainting thing is my favorite thing ever. WHY DID I NOT KNOW ABOUT THIS SOONER?!!

I love when it looks like I know what I’m doing. I restarted the dragon painting from earlier, now using UNDERPAINTING technique!!!!

Oh snaps, I think I learned how to handle watercolor. 

Skeleton painting is about 75% finished, underpainting for the dragon painting just begun!

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though there are some very masterful bullshitters out there

OMG this is nowhere near done.

Man, I friggin’ love my Scifi/Fantasy class. Here’s some thumbnails and the unfinished tonal study for my next painting. Wheeeeeeee

It’s Friday night and I’m working on homework. Luckily, my good friend Sierra Nevada is here to help.

If you’ve never painted before, a painting always goes through the “ugly baby” phase. At this point you think you’ve made horrible, horrible mistakes, but with a little perseverance you will get through it. That ugly duckling will eventually grow into something awesome if you keep working at it. 

That being said, this is one fugly baby.

Plein air painting in Central Park this past Sunday. Acrylics are the worst outdoors.

Here’s the final piece. I think I might repaint in acrylics it for next week, though. 

So close to being done…

Several gin and tonics, movies and a lot of will power. not done yet.