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| "Wee Emily Dover" 8"x7"; Gouache; 2013 "Wee Emily Dover Laid amongst the clover. With her trusty bear she'd play and color the night away. Until the Sandman made her yawn, Which coincided with the dawn." |
This past Saturday was the Opening Reception for the "Story Time Group Show" at Monkeyhouse Toys. The show, as I said before, had a fun concept. Take an original character and tell it's story. At first I was going to just use some of my other monster characters, but at the last minute (about two weeks til deadline) I decided the time had come to cross a painting off of my "to do in the future" list.
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| The more defined sketch for the painting. Tombstone designs were figured out later because I wanted to make sure they were different than previous one's I've done. |
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| The color comps. So many of them. |
About three years ago I told my husband about this idea of having a cute little skeleton girl coloring in her coloring book with her stuffed animals. . . in a graveyard. Every now and then I'd doodle what I thought the little skeleton girl should look like, but I could never get her right. I'd put the painting idea on this list I keep in the back of my planner of ideas that I'd like to eventually do when I feel my skill level has improved enough to do them justice. And it was here that the little skeleton girl idea sat, until a three weeks ago, when everything fell into place.
Below are pictures from the opening reception. I went early to check out the artwork and because I got sick on the last day of finishing my painting. :(
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| The Wall o' Art at the Story Time Show opening. |
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| A giant standee of one of the Bleenkies for people to take photos with. |
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| I found Emily on the wall! |
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