Speaking of the retrospective, I loved the colors and concept of a sketch for the Urashimatro painting, but it was one of my first oils and I feel like I can do better!
So, this has been in progress recently now that I'm wrapping up a certain project.
Urashimataro is the legend of the sea boy, who rescued a turtle on the beach. He followed the turtle to its home, and there he met a Sea Witch. In a Rip Van Winkle turn of events, she offers him a box filled with... should I spoil the surprise? Well, needless to say it wasn't good and he sayed under the sea after every horror was released from that box in Pandora fashion. Eventually he could return to his town, but it was many many years later and everyone was either old or deceased.
My goal is to capture the freedom and the shapes of the sketch... though it never quite seems to come out that way and sometimes have to change the placements of elements.
Burnt sienna underpainting. Oil on canvas, lean medium, lavender spike oil. I gessoed the canvas extra this time. Maybe they are all primed these days, but I didn't notice a difference when I was doing the underpainting. Surface didn't seem any more or less thirsty.
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