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.
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
It looks like the bridge is being guarded from crossing where the crimes are taking place at though.
I still wanna put an Uncle Sam hat on him but then I would have to explain that every second thread.
