Old Mother Troll 3/3

Here are the final stages of this piece.

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Old Mother Troll 2/3

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I gave a the drawing one coat of spray fixative to help keep the pencil in place.


From there I painted. Surprisingly, following the exact wording of the spray fix directions worked perfect. I usually have to deal with some pencil bleeding but I decided to just do it exactly like the can says it was perfect. Pencil didn't move or float at all.

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I have white florescent lights on my desk and they wash out the color in the photographs, the scan (below) is truer to the actual painting.

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From there I began my usual working method of finishing the piece digitally.

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All in all this was a test. A test to see how I might work in oil. I treated the digital stage almost like a test ground for what I will do with the oil. Unfortunately for my curiosity, my deadlines and projects have resumed a more regular, hectic schedule so this test has been put on hold for the time being. I did some similar experiments back during my Alice show, the most successful being the Prologue piece and the Dodo. Basically it's a matter of taking a drawing or watercolor and varnishing it and a variety of other dark magics and then it's ready to paint in oil. So with this working method the digital stage functions as a figuring out stage and I'll then implement them into the more controllable oil arena for the final, final.

Next post, Monday. Scissorhands!