“Red & Gold” is now finished and…not for sale in my Etsy shop because I’m submitting her to The Square Foot Show, along with “Shimmer II” and “Sparkle“. If she doesn’t sell there,  I’ll put her up on Etsy when the show’s over, which is September 5th. (The show starts on August 21st at AWOL Gallery in Toronto. I’m still undecided if I’m going to go to the artist reception…I’m leaning toward “no”. But still, it’s a cool show if you happen to be local and wanted to go.)

Anyway, here’s pictures of “Red & Gold”, which was my first real painting of a woman of colour, which I’m more or less pleased with. (I think her shading could have been done a lot better, but I think she’s pretty good for a first attempt.)

I used red and gold chunky glitter for her background, which I’m actually kind of in love with. The chunky glitter, that is.  After using it on this painting and my last one, regular fine glitter just seems to pale in comparison. It has its uses, don’t get me wrong, I used a fine glitter mix for “Red & Gold”‘s eyeshadow, I just don’t like it as much for the backgrounds.

I also made a video today showing “Red & Gold” and “Shimmer II” and how they shine, which you can watch right here. I just uploaded it and it’s not done totally processing so the quality isn’t the greatest yet. I also said in the video that “Red & Gold”‘s dress is embossed black paper, which it is, but I discovered after I made the video that the varnish I use is thick enough that it erased any trace of the embossing, which is unfortunate, because now it just looks like a plain black. Which is FINE, but I wouldn’t have used embossed paper had I have known it was going to do that.

So that’s “Red & Gold”…now I have to get back to work on “Pink & Green”…