Monday, October 23, 2023

Day 23: Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970) - 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2023

 31 Days of HELL-O-Ween 2023:
Taste the Blood of Dracula (1970)

It's another Hammer-produced movie starring Christopher Lee as Dracula!  I've watched so many Hammer Dracula movies as a kid and I always found something oddly frightening about them.  Although, maybe it was just Christopher Lee...

This was done with Acrylic Paint and a limited palette of: Paynes Gray, Titanium White, Yellow Ochre, Raw Sienna, Burnt Sienna, Burnt Umber, Cadmium Deep Red, and Primary Cyan.

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STEP ONE:  Here is a quick underpainting done with Payne's Gray and Titanium White as a sort of grisaille underpainting.  This time I did a pencil sketch underneath to try and keep everything together and give it a better foundational starting point.  It is painted on an 8-1/2" x 11" extra thick cardstock which was primed with a 50/50 mix of gesso and matte medium.

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STEP TWO:  And here's the next pass with color and some extra modeling done with the paint.

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STEP THREE:  It's the finished painting done with lots and lots and lots of back-and-forth.

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Done with Acrylic paint on 8-1/2" x 11" gessoed cardstock.

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