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The Making of
a Queen
The Queen of Disks |
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| A concept arises. I was looking
for a nurturing and earthy woman, and mate for the King of
Disks. The earthy part of the element of Water. |
A more refined sketch of what I want.
I noticed the eye looked a little more soulful in the
first sktch and I miss that - but the show must go on!
A shape that seemed important to me, and I still don't
know why, was a straight line from the nose and then a
clear, round, arch for the eyebrow - like an upside down
hook, or the upper curve of a lower case 'f'. |
Between this one and the last one were
a lot of changes in the background. There were
rivers, mountains, forests, and the milky way.
I think I will finally let go of the rebellion against
tradition and plant a rose garden along a stone path.
They still symbolize the milky way and the Queen has
revealed herself as Hathor, Egyptian mother-goddess,
protectress of children, milky way personified. |
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| I am experimenting with mounting the
image onto masonite and this is the result so far.
Hopefully this will survive as the final painting of the
Queen of Disks! My track record has not been so good
lately, taking me 2 or 3 tries before getting it right. |
The imprimatura layer.
I use a loose wash of burnt umber to unify the elements of
the painting and give me a middle tone to work on.
Sometimes I use other colors, depending on the subject and
effect I want. 1/17/06 |
A face emerges from the
muck. The colors used so far are olive green and yellow
ochre for the eye, permanent rose, yellow ochre, lemon
yellow and zinc white for the skin, and shadow areas all
over are a mix of raw umber and french ultramarine.
Still missing the vermillion! Can't you just see it
rubbed into the jaw and under the cheek? Darn.
If you look closely you will see a tiny landscape in
the eye. There is a sun, crescent moon and little
snow capped mountains.
1/18/06 |
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| Finding the horns 1/19/06 I usually
try to do the background first, work back to front, but
not this time. I wanted to guage the background by
the forground, not the other way. I think I will
make this a general policy.
This seems like a good place to stop and put in the
background and then I can work the whole image until it is
done. So far so good!
If you are wondering about those diamond shapes on the
neck they are shadows from the diamonds that will
eventually be falling in the air. I will probably
add them last. |
Finished!!! 1/20/06 I couldn't
help myself!
The colors I used for the background are french
ultramarine, olive green, raw umber, yellow ochre, zinc
white, pthalo green, and the roses are cad red hue and
zinc white. I rubbed some of that in the jaw and
cheek and the eye too. The diamonds were zinc and titanium
white mixed with various amounts of the colors above. |
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