NOTHING STARTLING........FROM START TO FINISH

Hello friends.

I have gotten lots of feedback from y'all when I post the in-progress shots of my work.

So....let's get right to it!

You saw my original drawing here.

And so this is the painting from start to finish....it took about 3 weeks.

YES.

THREE G.D. WEEKS!!!

Now, obviously there are some times that I forgot to take photos and it looks like it suddenly made a big leap forward.......but I tried to get most of the process recorded....enjoy!

I tried out about 3 other backgrounds, but this Jacquard pattern was actually very popular in the 40s/50's.
Good design NEVER goes out of style!

I painted these 3 paper elements. I had to take a day to design each element first - as they were not in my original drawing. (and I had to google a lot to design them....aka twitter....)

I kept adding elements. (As you will soon see, I repainted the 'world spaceport' 3 times!)

I started to draw in the poster.

Base-coating the colour blocks in the poster 

BAM. done the poster....with all the folds....AND the 2nd repaint of 'world spaceport'

I added the girl. You can see where I wood-filled the staple holes
(I will put a separate blog about her progress)

Finished the lady and her gun!

Added the Dymo-label letters,  some graphics and the top left notebook paper.

 Painted on (and applied) the coaster in the top right. (And world spaceport revision #3)

Finished painting and stapled on the robot.

Repaint out the graphics and begin the rest of the 3-D elements.

Finishing details, washes and such.

FINAL - adding the robot metal pieces.

So that was the journey from top to bottom - from beginning to completion.

I love her.

I will post ONE more post about her later....I want to show a little in-progress of how I painted her.

And a few other bits and bobs.

Is there anything you want to know about this piece?

A burning question?

I LOVE QUESTIONS (and comments too!)

Remember to check out this painting in March at The Artist Project.