Dune (1984)
Paul Atreides
I admit I was surprised to see a Dune 3 trailer already, figuring it would be another couple a few years before it was going to come out. But, anyhoo, as great as Denis Villeneuve's version is, my "Dune" has all manner of David Lynchian weirdness: Jean Luc Picard/Professor X as Gurney Halleck; men with eyebrows bigger than ZZ Top's beards; Sting running around in a black thong; Spacer Guild members are giant fetuses in steam-powered locomotives; and more festering pustules than you can shake a stick at. There is something about the David Lynch version that I find compelling for all its strangeness. Well, that and I saw it when I was a teenager--the prime time to imprint on media.
So, for not much reason, I figured I'd do a run of "Dune" paintings. I also feel as if I had been doing a bit too much digital work of late and feel like I need to do some work in the actual painting and whatnot.
Of course, I should have done some sort of rhyme or pun with "Dune" and "June", I suppose. Ah, well. Perhaps, by the time I'm done with the half-dozen or so paintings I'm vaguely planning for this run, it will be June or close enough to it.
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STEP ONE: Here are the quick pencils, done on a 6" x 8" gray gessoed hard board.
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STEP TWO: And here is the first pass with Acrylic paint.
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STEP THREE: And, after a lot of back-and-forth and corrections, here's the finished painting. Now that it's scanned in, I'll toss a coat of varnish on and call it done!
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Done digitally in Rebelle 8, with as assist in Photoshop for the lettering.
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