Revolution Art- The Second Amendment - My Latest Painting

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Hi RPF. Another stiff neck, blurry eyes, 100 cups of coffee and a few dopzen pipefuls i present Lady Liberty in a Second Amendment political propaganda poster.

She stands guarding the Second Amendment Bridge over Jackboot Gorge locked and loaded for close quarter fighting with an antique engraved silver pistol, two revolvers in her boots, and an M38 machine pistol at the ready and a dagger on her thigh. The garter button and ribbon holding her skirt up has the "R3volution" graphic on it.. The Mountain Billy Goat at rest is symbolic of the wild sprit of Liberty, inhabiting the mountaintops and being the King of His Hill. Mess with him or be a troll and you will feel the blunt force of his horns butting you or piercing you. I was gonna put an Uncle Sam hat on him till my son frowned.. OK.. dumb idea or not. On the other side of the Jackboot Gorge is LibertyLand "The Constitution Enforced Here". The hills beyond are covered in rainbows of wildflowers with golden dollar signs on their peaks symbolising the growing riches and prosperity to be had when following the organic law of the land.. The ribbon across the top says "The Second Amendment Puts Teeth In The Bill Of Rights" The Arch portal to Liberty Land breaks up the ribbons so that the words appear inside the archway, reinforcng the Constitution Enforced Here thematic. Hope ya like it.. The prints are 24x36 inches and the canvases are 48x72 inches, both limited editions.

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a high res version is at this link to see better detail
http://www.libertyeditions.com/SecondAmendment1600x1067.html

I was going to add RP and some other figures but after I posed her and figured out how to put the bridge in the gun would have pointed at them even though in the other direction. So.. I didn't.. RP , Lady Liberty and the 1776 Patriots destroying the 1984 Jackbooted media military industrilal vote fraud machine is my next painting.

I basically use three tools in Photoshop. The brush, the eraser and the smudge tool. I will sketch and fill in color and draw details with semitransparent colors and when happoy with the draughtsmanship I duplicate the layer, which is similar to adding a second coat of paints to the canvas and makes it opaque.. The nice thing is not having to smell the turpentine fumes, getting colors everywhere on my hands from accidentally laying it in wet oils and the ability to lock a layer as though the color dried and i am applying another thin coat for shadows or speculars. The other advantage to painting digitally is the ability to reproduce more than one which allows me to get the price down and the ability to work quicker which makes a painting that took three months for the thirty to fifty coats of paint to dry and layer to one to three weeks of work of the same intensity but able to concentrate on the subject and not manipulating the mediums and being a slave to their chemical processes.

Best Regards
Randy
 
Awesome work, Randy!

Guys, I ordered a print of "Liberty's Shield" from Randy's site ( http://www.libertyeditions.com/ ), and it's fantastic! The online images are great, but they don't do the prints justice.

Can't wait for the prints of "Liberty Spears the Enemy" to become available...

Thanks, Randy! Keep it up.
 
Awesome work, Randy!

Guys, I ordered a print of "Liberty's Shield" from Randy's site ( http://www.libertyeditions.com/ ), and it's fantastic! The online images are great, but they don't do the prints justice.

Can't wait for the prints of "Liberty Spears the Enemy" to become available...

Thanks, Randy! Keep it up.

Hi Kent. I have all the prints available now. I got the Liberty's Shield printed in quantity by an art printer, but since I have gotten several requests for that print and and the new one posted here I am going to go to a local digital printer specializing in artists renders and get them done and sent as the orders come n. I take a hit financially compared to quantity pricing but whatever.. I do these for fun to relieve my boredom. These works will become more well know as a lady with a friend driopped by today to fire one up and she freaked out about a painting on the wall i did 15 years ago and i said..look at these on my site I am doing./. She was a fine arts dealer by profession and the dollar signs went off. She has me hooked into the most prestigious political art gallery on DC coming soon and thinks it is an awesome time to be doing this type of artwork. Oh..yeah.. She loves Ron Paul too.. Bonus! She went home and ordered a print of The Second Amendment. She wanted to give me the cash and come back and pick it up but I thought it might cause her too much hassle. Now I think about it she was damned good looking and maybe wanted to come back..She asked if liked gallery shows. I hate gallery openings and crap. i am antisocial with all that plastic phony facade and cheap wine. Where is a good Guinness or Sam Adams for crying out loud. All us artisst ain't a bunch of pantywaists ya know.:D

Autoblither off.

best
Randy
 
Nice! Another order's coming up, then.

I hear ya on the gallery opening stuff. Who says art and pretension must go hand in hand? You disprove that, methinks.
 
I like it... but should Lady Liberty be packing a Nazi-Germany made MP40 sub machine gun?

Just a thought.
 
Ha.

I think the whole thing is garish. :eek:

Its a propagnda poster. That is the style. 3 Heavy Primaries, symbolic iconography placed in symbolic proximity and a slogan. It ain't meant to match your couch or slipcover or complment the HDTV woodgrain in your trailerhome.. I think it would look great in Captain Rednecks downstairs recroom bar and neighborhood pool hangout. Or at my rehearsal space..or in some hemp enthusiasts den.:D

Best Regards
Randy
 
Why does lady liberty look like a tranny with the man legs and face. Though the first thing I noticed was the german MG.
 
I like it... but should Lady Liberty be packing a Nazi-Germany made MP40 sub machine gun?

Just a thought.

It s an MP 38. Truth is I tried draughting an American hi tech one they used in iraq and Shink mentioned and I could not find one with the detail needed to draw one at the angle and still have it correct. I found other boring american weapons but wanted something she could wield in one hand because i loved the engraved antique pistol. So I dug out a book on movies and I found that weapon at an angle i could draw and enough resolution to recreate the parts. It was not a Nazi holding it but some american action hero spraying bullets. I looked t up after I had spent hours rendering it I found out its name and thought, well fuck it.. you were gonna strap a luger to her leg because it looked mean and a weapon s a weapon. German gunsmiths ain't too bad at their craft either. Final philosophical irony.. Yer gonna not get across Jackboot Gorge if yer a troll/nazi and it is your own sword hanging over yer head. And I am stuck.. My rule is once the sig is applied the painting is done..because it will never ever be finished to my satisfaction.

Best Regards
Randy
 
Why does lady liberty look like a tranny with the man legs and face. Though the first thing I noticed was the german MG.

That s a tough question and keep referring back to the strongness of the face in the classical lines of the sculpture. My mother was built like this woman is and all the teachers uised to give me problems about the bodies of women i drew. Seems a big butt, strong legs, tight waist and large breast with strong shoulders disturbed them like i was drawing dirty pictures or something. As well, I was self trained very young by copying Michaelangelos work as wel as PP Rubens..I was also influence by the best of the Marvel artists with john Buscema of the Conan The Barbarian graphic novel standing out to me.. In this style the muscles on male and female are accentuated with strong chiaroscuro or light and dark and three point lighting to "pop" thing more. A very important feature along with the wash of venetian yellows thyat defined the venetian masters paintings.

. The effing jpeg compression either flattens the image make the leg look flat or the colors get saturated which cause what are subtle shadows in the 10500 by 7050 pixel originals to spread as it is downsized and one pixels color is decided by the neighboring 528 pixels and gets solid colors giving what is a smooth gradient surface at high res a very angular and hard light/hard shadow gradient at low res. .She also has her eyebrows arched in a concentrated stare at something just slightly to the right of the frame..and the small speculars and shadows in the high res version show this much better. I used a 1 pixel brush to paint in hundreds of eyebrow hairs..Al you see is a grey dark line..like drag queen makeup. I would touch these up to correct what pisses me off..but what is the point. Ask Kent how much more the details show up in the prints.. You can count the hairs on Ronis head in Liberty Sheld. They were done with a one pixel brush and took me several hours. I generally use the 9 pixel brush for drawing and a five pixel on for fine detail.. so in a 24x36 at 300dpi print that is similar to painting details with a size 000 sable hair brush.

Best Regards
Randy
 
Disregard the nay-sayers, Randy, and keep doin' what ya do.

I am taking their points and giving a little education in the fine arts, which is sorely lacking in this country but which I was immersed in since childhood. I am truly glad to be doing art again and my hand is getting tighter..but crap.. I need a Cintiq..this mouse is a bitch after ten hours of precision moving asnd my neck is killing me because the monitor is always in the same place..even if i move it..if ya know what i mean.. You can see her face and fine eyebrows in the print. You know what I mean about the compression crushing the fine gradients..and killing the subtler face hilites.

best
randy
 
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