Portrait of a Lady

This is a digital painting I have been working on in Photoshop. I began with a black & white piece of photo reference, painted in grayscale and moved on to colorize the piece. These are some cropped versions of the whole image. I love playing with cropping, as well as color and saturation experiments! In the topmost images, I imagine painting in the edge of an ancient Macedonian or Egyptian column, which this woman is peering around.

Rosemary Rising Bodypaint Show

Some photos from the vault. In Spring 2010 I tried my skills at bodypainting for the first time with my Peak C-50 airbrush. The theme for the evening was "Movie Monsters", at "Rosemary Rising" event in Sarasota, FL. An ode to HR Giger, I painted a xenomorph on my model, an acrobat, who was very enthusiastic about the theme.