Piece for "Six Legged Freaks" tonight!!

Here's my piece which will be on display tonight at Cactus Gallery. Come by and check it out!

"Six Legged Freaks"  

Saturday, April 10, 2010 -- 7p-10p  

Bug Themed Art Show 

Cactus Gallery

4534 Eagle Rock Blvd., Eagle Rock

For more info or pricing, please call Sandra Mastroianni at 323.256.6117 or semastroianni70 at yahoo.com

Evolution of a painting

Working on a piece for Cactus Gallery's upcoming Bug themed show: I'm doing a piece about egyptian scarabs...

Original concept:

First pass (end of first day) Her skin had a blue undertone- wish I had taken a pic of it then, since it looked cool. Tweaked composition to match square wood panel, and am adding in an egyptian styled background:

Second pass (end of second day): Still figuring out what to do with the border space (black? spray gold? papyrus paper?).

Stay tuned for tonight's progress!

Annnd... back to the Egyptians

Feather headed crown

This one's headdress is more modeled after Liz Taylor's headpiece from the Cleopatra movie than anything I found that was authentic, but man, isn't it awesome looking?

Another Egyptian

More Egyptian /scrarab beetle studies!

The scarab beetle was associated with Ra the sun god; they saw Ra rolling the sun across the sky like a dung beetle (scarab) rolls a ball of poo.

Also, small stone sculptures of scarabs were placed over the heart of mummies; they were weighed against the feather of life when the deceased was being judged in the afterlife.

Egyptian with Scarab beatle

While I was drawing this, I thought to myself how much I freakin' love this sketchbook from Florence. I mean, seriously, the paper has -such- a beautiful texture and tooth to it, and I love how I can work the markers into it. Anyway. It will be sad!