questing for the key in the cage

Full size not safe for work, female nudity:

Detail:

The above painting is about 2ftX4ft.

This is on the back of the first painting from my last post. Smaller, I think it is 2ftx3ft? Need to measure!

About 4.5ft x 5ft.

This is six feet long and one foot tall, so difficult to thumbnail.

This is about 6ft x 4ft, roughly. Really big. Bigger than it looks here!

These were difficult to photograph and edit so that they looked reasonable, but these are acceptable approximations. So… anyone want to buy any large and somewhat strange paintings?

These are from my painting studio class. I’ve found this course a real struggle – but I think in the end, it will turn out to be a very worthwhile one.

What’s happening here? Well, I could get into a lengthy explanation about long defunct RPG characters, etc, but I think I shall spare everyone. It isn’t finished, but it got to the point where I felt finished working on it. Actually looking at the photograph is showing me exactly what needs be done, so that’s pretty cool. This isn’t a piece that I think is great but I loosened up some here in some ways, and pulled in some personal imagery.

This fella isn’t done yet, but it is getting there. I went into class today thinking I would paint over something I started for my dropped figure painting class. Unfortunately, when I got there and sized up the piece in question, I liked it too much even in it’s never-to-be-completed form to paint over it. So, I used the back of a small board I had experimented on with some iridescent acrylics (mice and cabbages, for those curious, but it wasn’t too much of a success). I picked a sketch that I particularly liked from my sketchbook with relatively similar dimensions, and off I went. Process:

[actually I love the composition of this much more, and the elephaunt's slightly more nervous expression, but I will still probably sleep easy tonight]