Sometimes, demons are born good. Their lives are appallingly conflicted, they are surrounded with pure evil, yet they want to do good. Mostly, they go insane, even if it takes millennia of struggle, and then evil is not a problem. The ones that don’t go insane, are truly powerful beings, truly good beings… like this sweet demon, conflicted, but good.
Back to my sci-fi roots (:
When I first read about Hallee Sorenson's 18th birthday, it made me cry, especially seeing the picture of her sitting among those birthday balloons, all alone ): This story:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/life-style/life/81098519/US-teen-receives-more-than-10-000-birthday-cards-and-gifts
...also made me cry, but for totally the opposite reason! There are many, many beautiful people in the world. While I love the picture of Hallee smiling her huge, delighted smile, I love this one:...
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Probably 2/3's there with @schuld ... really loving the alt-classical look/feel this painting has for me (:
Still listening to Lykke Li, but also Ingrid Michaelson, whom I discovered this morning… her version of ‘Creep’ made me cry (:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1lOlDxJ1tBU
This is who I'm working on, now... @SCHULD Really loving listening to Lykke Li's Youth Novels at the moment (:
Almost finished beautiful @SKINBYRD ... now on what I think of as the final 3rd of my painting process; the first third is all the roughing in/establishing tone/value/lighting, the second third is the hardest, hours of subtle layering, the last third, now, is all downhill, and the most fun, where the painting is almost finished, and I'm just doing all the final, gorgeous detail that
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She's really taking shape, now (:
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