This is a little preview of an oil painting I’ve been working on forever now.  I’m doing it in the Dutch Flemish technique and still in the black and white phase.  The imagery was inspired from the opening scene in the film “The Fall“.  I’ve got it cropped here but there are caricatures riding the elephants back like a life raft.

I look at this piece every day as I leave my house and wonder when I’ll get back to it.  I get intimidated by my own work.  I get an image to a point that it starts to really looking good, let it sit for a year or two, then stutter at committing to a direction moving forward.  How radically different I feel I would paint it now.  Continuing it will give it the illusion that it was painted by two different people.  I wish I could save a copy as if it were a photoshop file.  A Control+z function would be great too; while I’m wishing.

This is another painting I’m working on with the same technique.  The pink in the cellos peg box is actually the last little bit of the first primed layer showing from underneath the black and white shading layers.  You can really see the warmth in this photo as compared to the elephant image above.  The elephant image was primed with a light blue.