“Muerta Bride”
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After the last Day of the Dead piece I did, I still hadn’t gotten it out of my system yet, so I did another. I took the same basic concept of the last piece (border, girl inside, heavy texture) and pushed it further and into a different direction. I wanted to do something more fluid and less grid-like, hence the rose and leaf border. As much as I liked the color-iffic quality of the last image, I felt like doing something a bit more restrained, so I reigned in the color palette. It’s still quite bright and colorful.
This is by far the largest drawing I’ve ever done: 24 x 30″; which may not sound like much, but once you exceed 18 x 24″ things start to get real cumbersome. Plus the amount of time that needs to be put in for the detail something this size entails can be exhausting, to say the least. It’s a couple inches bigger than the “Muerta” piece. The total amount of time I put in was about 10 days, though. I put myself in a bit of a squeeze to get it done in time for an abstract self-imposed deadline, and I’m pleased not only that I made it, but that the piece turned out so well.
Read more about the process here.
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