A hasty midnight scramble after the end of a fine, busy Sunday to produce the best image possible for todays post ends up with this:
It's an old and not especially flattering gesture drawing that provided the foundation for my largest painting ever, A New Wedding Hope. My friend Earl stands in for Luke Skywalker. This sketch stands in for Earl, until I came up with a more detailed cartoon drawing. Art trivia: the word "cartoon" comes from the medium of line art that painters use to draw their reference images before painting them.
To see A New Wedding Hope, you can either visit Earl's house, or click here.