That’s probably not the final name for this one, but it’s coming along and I thought I’d share the first few steps in this painting. A skeleton couple dancing together makes perfect sense to me. Double the pleasure, double the fun!
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- Here’s where I started. And then basically stopped for about 2 weeks.
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- Thought I’d add the Lightner Museum behind them but it just wasn’t working well.
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- I abandoned my first idea, found some reasonable stock photos of another couple and got to work on them.
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- Here I’ve used a pastel pencil in dark umber and wiped off the vine charcoal.
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- Blocking in the color.
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- Blocking in the skellies.
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- Rubbing in the background with packing peanuts.
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- Rubbing in the skellies with packing peanuts, too. I haven’t yet decided whether or not to rub in the pastels of their clothing.
