About Spooky Señorita:
Completed: April 2024
Medium: Acrylic on canvas
Finishing Products Used: Golden Isolation Coat + ~5 coats of Golden MSA Gloss varnish w/UVLS
Measurements (frame + painting): 39 x 27 inches / 99.06 x 68.58 centimeters
Frame notes: MDF base / Gold acrylic finish / Wire hanger on back / Shiny brass oxidized info plate
Price: Not presently for sale
Based on a story written by my friend Kaktus, Spooky Señorita took me about 2 years on and off to paint. The creature pictured is Missy, a ‘wolficus’ – she is the childhood imaginary friend of the protagonist, who is shocked to suddenly find her physically at his doorstep as an adult. Maybe all those hazy memories from so long ago were real? Or maybe he’s just losing his mind. Would you walk out there and say hello? (Why not – it’s probably just the Ambien anyway.)
I was learning while producing this, and you can tell – the dull browns seen on the porch wood are largely made that way by low quality black/white crafting paint I initially used for darkening, but I liked the emphasis/contrast it offered, so didn’t “fix” it once I hit my stride and started using more proper acrylics. You could call the surface ‘impasto’, as I piled on many layers of paint while trying to affect the aesthetic I wanted. A large part of that was actually just plain old covering up mistakes – the four coats of Golden MSA Gloss varnish I applied help you see my struggle to refine details as I fixed a mistake, then fixed what the mistake did to the surrounding bits, then fixed the new mistake by doing that, and so on. Still, this process helped build a level of detail and texture that shines – literally and figuratively. And yes, that’s a Buc-ees mug.
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