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Personal Paintings: Gargoyles
I grew up in the 80's and Saturday morning cartoons. One of my all time favorite cartoons was Gargoyles. So when I found a sketch online of Goliath and Elisa (as a gargoyle -the episode called "the mirror"), I had to recreate it in my style with my own spin on it. I am very happy with it. I keep thinking that I would like to do another one, with Goliath and Elisa, when they go out on Halloween as 'Beauty and the Beast'. Hopefully, in the next year or so I will get to it. -2023.
Character Painting Series: Ashoka (ver. 2/2.0)
in 2021, I created the painting on the left of Ashoka, from Star Wars. It was a birthday gift for my boyfriend (now husband). But I am not very good at doing faces straight on and I was never really happy with it.
In 2023, I decided to re-do the painting, using a different angle / perspective. The original image, that I was trying to recreate also had Rex, a clone trooper and friend of Ashoka.
The new painting turned out Amazingly! (The original painting was discarded). It amazes me to see how in just two years, I have really started to define my style, and progress in technique.
Cake Topper: Batman n' Cat Woman
When my husband and I got married in 2023, I decided to create a very custom cake topper for us. Now I confess, originally, my idea was to have it be Batman and Captain Marvel -each of our favorite superheroes. However, after creating Batman, my Captain Marvel looked like crap!! So I threw it out and started again. Seeing as I am a cat person, and Batman did have a relationship (in some cannons) with Cat Woman, I tried to recreate her. Seeing as I wear glasses, I thought the mask was fitting. I was quite pleased with myself. They were created using Sculpey (sculpting, bake-to-dry clay). The bodies and heads were created separately. They were attached with a dowl and glued on as one of the final steps, before painting on a protective glaze.
Geometric Mountain Mural
This was a bedroom mural I did for my youngest son, in 2021, while he was still in high school. Per his request it was done in shades of grey. We went with four different shades, to keep from having the same color touch itself. While I had a general sketch / idea of how I wanted this to turn out, it really was kind of done on the spot with a roll of painters tape. In hindsight, the mountain on the left didn't turn out as perfectly as I had hoped, but overall I was really happy with it, and so was he. The original idea was to include a geometric moon as well, but in the end, we decided to keep it simple, and not include it.
Character Painting Series: Batman, Malcolm, and Hulk/Wolverine
In 2021, I decided to start the tradition of creating painting for my now husband on his birthday. Doing characters from some of his favorite shows / superheroes. The first one I did was Batman. His all time favorite. Only I was so excited to give it to him, I didn't wait until his birthday. (Instead I did another one in 2021 -Ashoka, for his birthday). In 2022, I did Malcolm -from Firefly. That was an interesting re-creation. And then in 2023, My husband really challenged me when he requested a Hulk and Wolverine image. And not just any image, this was a specific "encounter" between the two of them. This is when I realized that my style (in painting) was about blending and lines.