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Whew! My son was sick most of the week, so that put a severe monkey wrench in my already limited art schedule. Finally got this done! :D Now the enjoyable part starts ...

Here's the final detailed outline. It's ready for the pencil study, our next step, which will be done on design vellum. Notice the differences between this and the color oil sketch above. The wingman has been moved forward, there are five airplanes airborne, and there is more detail in the background, including the Mustang to our far right. Further refinements, if needed, will come with the pencil study, but I don't anticipate much more will be done compositionally - that was supposed to be fussed over and pretty much "frozen" at this stage.

For artists like myself who create "representational" scenes from our imaginations, the several layers or "stages" of the creative process enable us to visualize the scene over a period of time, tweaking things as we go. The goal is to pretty much be on autopilot by the time we prepare the final canvas for paint. For this particular picture I enhanced the contrast quite a bit to make it easier for you to see at this small scale. I also "colored in" the airborne airplanes, and rather sloppily I must say . . . they won't be "black" in the final work!

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I forgot to include the oil sketch mentioned ... pls go here to 'compare' the final outline with the oil sketch:
http://wademeyersart.tripod.com/id67.html

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This is good stuff. make sure to show us the final result!

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I've always wondered what the process was. You mean you don't just start putting oil on canvas with all of this only in your head?


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. . . You mean you don't just start putting oil on canvas with all of this only in your head?


Heh heh ... I could commence painting with little to no prior planning, but then I'd be putting out crap, aka, "Modern Art", or, "How to Con a Bunch of Rich Elitists Into Thinking You're a Genius". :rock:

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What? You mean Yoko Ono doesn't have any talent???? :shock:


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Eeeeeaaaaahaooooaaoasssldhslslsllslslsllaaaahhhhhhh! :snipe:

Well, I'm a Beatles fan, so I guess Yoko comes with the package ...

Paul's the man, but he's a great example of a painter who should stick to his day job ... have you seen his "artwork"? Sheesh!

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Paul's the man, but he's a great example of a painter who should stick to his day job ... have you seen his "artwork"? Sheesh!


Looks like some soon to be classics here!

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Paul McCartney wrote:
...."And these were the connections between all the ancient civilizations, but as the painting started to develop, the one on the right started to look quite modern, so I think of him more as a modern face, with these ancient connections in the background there. The rod almost goes through his mouth, like a cigar or something; it comes out of his mouth. So that is quite nice, pretty"
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Paul McCartney wrote:
"I like theses earth colors. I like what happens when you water them down a bit, the nice earth colors. I know i have said it before, but soil and the earth are very important to me. Living on a farm, a love of nature as a kid, so it should be important. It is all over the whole surface of our planet, which makes it pretty important, really. So these colors attract me"



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Paul McCartney wrote:
"The shape of the head is a bit improbable... and again you have the two sorts of eyes. It wouldn't have been as interesting to me to just have the one eye, or both eyes closed, or both eyes open. He looks like a boxer possibly after losing a fight; there is a bit of a battering in that left eye, isn't there? So he is a sort of hero figure, a warrior figure, like comic-book heroes. I could almost imagine, like Marion Brando. But I like these white streaks behind it, like highlights, like lighting on him."


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Yeahp ... real classics, those is!

Paul is actually one of my collectors! I can rightfully say that, I suppose. Right after John died in 1980 I did a pencil portrait of John and sent it to Paul 'cold'. MPL (McCartney Productions Ltd.), at the time, IIRC, had "Soho" in London as part of it's address.

Lo and behold I got a nice note back thanking me for the gift. The note came on MPL stationery that had an image of Paul as the watermark. Pretty cool. darn if I didn't misplace the note!! :ouch: Oh well, such is life.

I sometimes wonder if Sir Paul still has the portrait.

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Wicked drawings you are doing here Chico...

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