A drawing and Black paint!!!

Hey everyone. I have shown the start of another painting. As you can see I've started out with a drawing of the model, my wife Malissa, on tracing paper, then I transfer the drawing to a board already painted in black. And yes, this drives some people crazy such as my former painting teacher from college. He had two rules for me personally. No drawing with a pencil, and no painting with black as a back ground. I respected his class and didn't do there, but afterward, I've been all about black paint and pencils.
Why is there this rule that the background must be white? Some people paint the figure red before doing anything, but that was OK. Well, I've been happy with the paintings as they have turned out, and several costumers have them and seemed happy too, so I guess it all works out. I guess it's best sometimes to listen to what you think you should do. Everyone take care and have fun.

New Painting

Hi there! Here is my new painting titled Haunting Waters. It's pretty much in the same place the last painting was set in, but in this one you can see the water I was telling you about in the last blog. I'm going to do some more like this, I really like the look of the low light. It gives it a nice haunting effect. The challenge here is not to make it too dark. A lot of people, like my Dad, has noticed that some of my work is really dark. I know though, I like it that way. I stay up late a lot and usually hike around sunset. I'm not a Vampire though, I'm just a creature of the night, like in the Laura Branigan song:) Everyone take care!