Current location:	painting table
Current mood:	tired
Current music:	De/Vision - In Dir
Entry tags:	art, paintings, process

Hadara's Robe of Stars
elusivetiger fixed my feng shui issue with my painting location (we're doing a lot of work to the house, which means things are constantly in flux; for the past few weeks I haven't liked the area I used to paint in). The result was that I was much happier and spent a lot longer working tonight than I expected. On to Hadara's robe with its finicky patterns!

Here's me painting the first layers over the frisket film.


And peeling it away... you can see how delicate it is. I was using the "extra tack" version of the film; I think in the future I might try the normal low tack, because this one stuck a little more than it needed to. Running the paper through the printer already abuses it a bit, and the film on top of that was just too much for the surface of the paper. I was basically pleased with the result, though I had to be more careful painting over the filmed areas than I think will be necessary with the lower tack film.


Where I stopped for the night. I painted the background of the patterns in, then put down the basecoat on her skin (I'm going to have such fun doing that warm toffee color!) and worked a little on the Sun King's robes before I gave up for the evening. You can see the book of patterns I was using propped up against the wall.

The scan's a little skewed, but it gives you a better look at the patterns at least:


Hadara's Robe of Stars

I have so much to do it's just falling right out of my head lately. But I think having this new painting place will help me immensely.


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