Wed 19 Sep 2007
Baseball Squid by Meg Lyman
6×6 Gouache on Cradled Gessobord
$100 - e-mail to buy
I have stopped working on this. It doesn’t feel finished to me, but I can’t think of what else to do. It works well enough, and I’m about ready to give up on it. Bad post-scan color balancing aside, does anyone have suggestions?
September 21st, 2007 at 6:30
Gosh, I don’t know what more you could do to this one Meg. I really like it “as is”, this squid looks like he’s ready to kick some arse at baseball!
I like the brown tones contrasting with the green and the shading looks really good. I really can’t think of what else you could do to it to make it feel finished?
September 24th, 2007 at 2:22
Megasaurus! It looks done to me. The only thing that could possibly make it more finished is to cut up a couple of those mini-bats to make a frame for it - and that’s an arts & crafts/woodworking thing not a painting thing. Don’t go there, it’ll make you crazy!
Kayzilla
October 1st, 2007 at 7:25
Thanks for the feedback!
Rita, I got some suggestions from a friend at art class last week - did you interpret the far “bump” as his other eye, or a concussion?
Kayzilla! That mini-bat idea is fabulous. It’s on 2-inch cradled board, so it’d totally work. However, I don’t know if I want to go crazier… pondering…