It’s 4:30am and I’ve been working on this piece all night, hoping to have most of it finished by Saturday night when my friends are coming over to celebrate my birthday.

So here she is so far…she looks a little grotesque in my opinion, but I kinda like her that way…

The pictures don’t really do her justice. For instance, her face is shaded a lot better than the pics show and her nightgown is textured and bubbled, sort of like seersucker. Because her nightgown is made of mulberry paper, which is both fibrous and porous, when I add the red ink for the blood, it should, theoretically, bleed into the paper like crazy.

The Adirondack alcohol inks I bought to use as blood turned out to be the wrong colour palette (dammit!) so I’m going to be using Derwent’s Inktense pencils instead. Honestly, I’m not too sure how they’re going to work but I figure if they don’t do what I want them to do, I can probably make do with paint, water and glaze.

Anyway, that’s where she’s at. My back is killing me from being hunched in this chair drawing, colouring, cutting and pasting all night, so I think it’s almost time for bed.