Here’s the progress I’ve made on Painting 4. I worked on the boot, figure eight with flowers, baseball, bow tie and more. There’s a ways to go on this one though. I’m really happy with the baseball and the boot. Getting into some really fun stuff! Larger picture after the jump.

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Picked up some steam on this piece. Painted a big partial devil face and a pair of dice and a lot of other elements too. I’m really happy with both of those. Some of the extra elements will definitely be changing as the painting comes together. There’s a big wheel full of stuff that I think turned out horrible. And the big yellow diamond will become a kind of street sign. Hopefully. A larger, but crappy, pic after the jump!

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I started laying down the color on this one. These are so intricate that I usually don’t take the time to do value studies or anything, I just paint right over the line drawing. I do this mostly just to save time because these take so long to do. I go item by item sometimes only doing one a sitting. It’s really frustratingly slow sometimes, but I really enjoy these. The Mario mushroom was really a pain to draw and get right, I had to use a grid system to get the pixels right, but I love how it turned out. Really at that point I just had to get the colors right and stay in the lines. See a larger image after the jump.

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Painting four is ready to go. The drawing is done and I’m set to start painting. This one is huge. Somehow Joe convinced me to do a really big one in this series and it’s really overwhelming. But I’m excited about it. I’m sure it’ll take me a while to complete but hopefully it’ll be worth it. The ones I’ve done up til now have all been rather small, around the 14 to 18 inch range. There’s a lot of elements in this one that I can’t wait to paint though. You can’t tell much from the larger photo, but it’s after the jump!

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