This one isn’t as big in the one you watched, but the pressure is still on! The approach here is a little different, also. It always is a bit different, each painting, I guess. I usually under-paint the figures first, then work back to front.

Yeah that’s how I remember it, and I just noticed the under-painting style on this was different. Last time everyone had a greyish light-blueish, silverish, hard to describe color.. Is it just because you want to complete it faster? Master of technique!

This is the more classical method, back to front. Maybe it is faster. We’ll see!

Thanks, Lori. I thought you wanted to observe egg tempera technique, which this isn’t, so far. It may come in at some point. You are welcome to come see the progress, however.
In updating, I used a cop instead of a knight, chasing down a hippie-gal. It suddenly seemed to have a corollary to the Occupy movement. I liked the idea of this fearful, conservative/authoritarian symbol lusting after the freedom of the counter-culture, a freedom they will never achieve because security/safety is desired too greatly. So they have to kill it.

To this point the colors are mostly earth colors in the warms, cremnitz and titanium white, cools are grays, some ultramarine, azure, and turquoise. Some areas are transparent, others solid.

Thanks, Jerry. Hopefully the depth will be even greater, I realize my walks in Griffith Park are having an influence on my scenery. I saw the Pasolini Decameron about 25 years ago. Can’t remember a thing, so I’ll have to see it again before this Koplin Del Rio narrative show goes up, and this piece goes on display.