In the Meantime...

So, while I wait for the paint to dry in different regions of the biker-guy-and-dog, something else needs to be ongoing! Held up a just little on the hand study -- reconsidering background options. Undecided. Bored?

In the meantime, here's a new start from old reference images of a few years back, combined with the Italian countryside outside of Florence, as photographed from a moving bus by a traveling companion. The sheeted-figure-image is from a photo shoot back when I was only considering painting again, but still invested my creative time into journals with ideas, sketches and photo concepts.

Premise behind the painting: An homage to Kit Williams, an English illustrator/painter/author. Trying to invoke the same feel as his beautiful children's book imagery, along with an Italian Renaissance fresco-feel for good measure!

A Dreamer Lies on Tuscan Sheets...
Life-size canvas; first layer of underpainting.

Oh, and an update on a partner to the green Sweet Gum Ball painting; an autumnal version of one.