A new painting in the Defensive Postures series. This one sprung from the picture I was using as a desktop pic since I inadvertently changed it during Honeybear Massacre. I really like the head on the palace guardian lion, and since I used his legs in Honeybear, I figured why not throw in the head. I really like the blue stencil over the city. Have be careful not to overuse it.
lions
Underdrawing of new painting
A few words about how I work. I use slow drying acrylics and very thin acrylics made by Golden Acrylics. I have adapted an old masters technique (my understanding of it) to suit these media. First I will do a detailed charcoal(nero) sketch on the aerosol surface. This tends to come up in acrylic washes, so I’ve taken to illustrating a dark and light comic style illustration that will withstand washes. Over this I glaze burnt sienna slow dry. This establishes the middle tone. I reestablish the lights. and darks, blending them in wet on wet. What then stands is a tricolor underpainting. Like the old masters, I will glaze colors over this toned skeleton. this resembles coloring a photograph. Opaque highlights follow, usually with high flow thin acrylics. Pictured is a comic style underdrawing from a new painting. Sometimes they come out nice. This one I might actually redo on the computer to do a silkscreen run.