Finally gave up on this one. It’s a color version of an ink drawing I made earlier. Gouache on cardstock.
I’ve found that generally when I’m not happy with a painting, it’s because I didn’t get enough color variety into it. Sometimes it means I just need to buy a larger variety of paints. I bought what seemed like a ton of watercolors before I felt like I had a palette with enough range. I’m working with a smaller set of gouache colors, so maybe I should expand that.
I also didn’t think quite hard enough about the color before forging ahead with this one. Gouache is more forgiving than watercolor – you can really slop it on – but it also gets muddy hella quick if you don’t have a goal in mind. Well, the next painting will be better.
Here’s the finished version of the green guy painting. Gouache on cardstock, cut-out, approx. 4″ x 4″
My real interest was in trying to paint the weird lizard skin on our green guy … I sort of pooped out when I got to what he was looking at; hence the perfunctory kick-line girl.
And here’s a cute scan of the lil’ green guy on my hand. Someday, I must get a decent digital camera for this kind of thing.
Man, how did I avoid that joke for the past few years. “The Big Wheel” (panel sample above) is my Teddy & Anna comic book, which I began in 2004 and haven’t yet finished. It was a challenging project on a couple of fronts: a) it was the first long comic book story I’d tried since I was a teenager, and b) each page was about 4 feet high. The piece of paper at left in the window is 8 1/2″ x 11″.
The story was serialized in the windows of a cultural organization downtown; I would go and change out the pages a couple of times a week. The office was at the corner of the block, and it was cool to look out the window and see cars creep up to the intersection, as the drivers tried to figure out what the hell they were looking at in that window.
I should really finish that story up someday. The window space isn’t available anymore, but this newfangled internet thing might work for letting people read the comic.
Wait. Strike that! Reverse it!
Thank you.
(I’m running on empty tonight, so a brief and silly post.)
