WRAPPED

This art was for a gallery show with the them of RED and how it influences our emotions. It started as a made up pose and portrait. I was just sketching in my studio and had a good pose worked out. I wanted it to have a theme though so I added the hand and necklace. My idea was to show how we can become wrapped up in a relationship or desire and it can effect our life or well being. I wanted the art to be loose and with energy. So after doing my drawing I spray fixed it and then mounted it to a board with archival glue. I then coat it with clear gesso to seal the drawing. I can then add the color any way I like. Sometimes that is with oil paint. But this one was with acrylic and the hot pink was a color pencil. The surface was Crane paper that I like because it is a nice soft surface for drawing and keeps me loose. It is not good for erasing since it is a letterpress paper.