Happy Valentine’s Day y’all. I just hope everyone feels how much love these two corgi’s are.
In case you need a reminder. You are a wonderful person deserving of finding the perfect person whom loves you.
This was done for my Patreon art and the original is available for sale. I hope to have prints available soon.
It’s on Bristol smooth with Copic marker.
I painted this little guy w a variety of gay pride colors. But kept it sorta day off the dead ish too. To give it that glowing green zombie color I painted the inside glowy green.
I want my original pieces of art to be more light fast. It’s not like the art is going to fade before your eyes or anything. I have just found that after a few years in a hot art tent all summer some of the colors can dim.
Some people solve this by putting all their art behind expensive UV glass. It’s a great way to go and if you have a few special pieces you keep in bright rooms I suggest it. I am looking for a lower budget option.
First I taped off area i didn’t want to get fixative on. I used Krylon Kamar Varnish as a base level.
Second I applied Golden Gloss Archival Varnish to the top. Some of them have one and some have two coats. The two coats w fixative are definitely shinier.
Third I applied Krylon Satin UV Archival to the sets in the bottom. Some of them have one and some have two coats. Again the two coats are shinier.
There are a few spots that took damage from the pro art tape I used. I did the shirt trick and everything but some of the color came off. I made notes on the board where this applies.
The spots that have just fixative and the spots with just UV sprays are rougher in texture for some reason. I do not know why. However, most people do not touch their art so we shall see how they fair when light is applied.
Now I will set these in a window that gets direct sun and see what happens. It is, of course going to rain for the next 5 days (written on Sunday. Being posted on Wednesday)
I had a bunch of fun painting these with acrylic paint. It’s a woodcut I got from Michael’s.
Side note: I couldn’t find these on the site anymore and nothing comes up under LGBT even though they have a sign up on the display behind the huge 4th of July stuff. however, they have signed the open for all pledge so. It’s probably just an oversite or the fact that if you wanna do 4th of July art you have to start now.
I plan to spray this with uv gloss paint before I hang it up cause sunshine fade.
The staff did a wonderful job putting out a great convention. They had all the information I needed to run my panel to me early and the tech for my panel ran smoothly.
I actually managed to finish coloring the art I prepped for my coloring w QQH panel a smidge early and then flubbed and blubbered for several minutes.
I had a great time. I hope all y’all had as good a time as I did.