Fabulous, fedora and fur muff (collar) for fashion week 
My model photographs so well…you fashionista you! Both of you look fabulous! 
Holbein the Younger? Well, not exactly but it is in there. I just did not use anamorphic perspective. Do you see it? Her face has a slight smirk and I added more contrast.
Next, is the fakir. I am just torn between the Sun Dance or the Kavadi. I am leaning towards the Kavadi because I do not think that any banners have been created about this. However, it does present a challenge since I cannot fit an entire altar within the banner without having to shrink the proportion of Fakir. I have prepared a close cropped version and the drawing has already been transferred. In short, it looks like bicycle spokes pierced through a torso. This would be more like a fakir rather than the Sun Dance, but the Sun Dance would be simple, graphic (as in shapes/contrast/good positive/negative space) and easy to convey with 1 or 2 large fish hooks. Granted, if I go for 2 hooks, that is more modern primitives but I like the shape the skin makes when it is stretched with two hooks. It reminds me of steep hills. Until tomorrow…..
Numero dieci! Today was definitely productive! I just need to do some clean up and work on the face. She looks bored I also want to enhance the skin folds a bit more and add a little more detail overall.
Thanks to both Kory and Leslie for a fantastically fun visit today!!!
After I finish this one…shall it be Fakir or Strong Woman????? We’ll see tomorrow…..
Well it has been one heck of a week but I finally finished Harry. Even though I worked on him during the week, I did not post updates. Don’t let the time of my posting deceive you. Due to weather, my flight out of BTV was canceled. I found this out shortly after I went home after finishing Harry around 10:30. I went to the airport and God Bless the man behind the counter who told me to fly out of Boston! So, I drove to Boston. I have had no sleep and I was already tired. Snow blind several times with failing as not an option. I have a boarding passs…whew. I may just take a nap here and hopefully wake up in time to see if my gate changes. At least I now have a direct flight to Indianapolis instead of 3 flights. Number 9 is complete. I’ll be off for a few days and back at it again at the end of next week.
My return flight goes to BTV but I’ll have to change that since my car is here. I’ll worry about that once I get to Indianapolis. 12 hours until I can see Jim. Night, night.
Here is today’s progress on Harry. I may add some bath mosaics and there will be lots of bubbles. I’m starving and I have a long day at school tomorrow so that’s it for today enjoy!
I just reworked my sketch and changed Harry’s position. Stay tuned for more progress…
Today was probably the most mentally taxing day to paint all year but I worked through it. It took all day to work and rework and work again…..when will I learn to step away. Oh, to only paint 
Whew…
Gator Girl has a little bit of an attitude but it happens sometimes. I have a little bit of clean up work to do and then she will be complete.
Number 7 is now complete (minus a few clean up details). Meet the Bearded Lady! Tomorrow, I will work on Gator Girl.
Gator Girl and the Bearded Lady are next! Here is a pic of today’s progress on these banners. I also added some border details to the previous banners. I’ll post a pic of that tomorrow.
Pierced! (Not yet)
I am flying out tomorrow for a few days so I will be back in the studio on Friday. This will give me time to figure out what I am going to do for the final 5×7ft banner Strong Woman.