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Percy Jackson: Book 1, Ch.01

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February 2021 | 22 x 16 | Gouache Paints with Coloured Pencil and (light) Airbrushing on Mounted HotPress Watercolor Paper.

So this painting is a couple of firsts for me. First and foremost of those firsts, it's my first Percy Jackson painting! The other first; I took the opportunity to try a new surface - it's pretty much the exact same kind of paper I usually use (it's even the same brand) but mounted on a board. The cost was comparable to what I normally do, but the prospect of not having to do any taping beyond some basic stuff I do for tidiness was intriguing. It worked fine, though it received the paint slightly different than I'm used to. Right now I'm thinking, I'll probably only use it for any paintings I do that are larger than what I most often do, because in the past, anything larger I had to stretch a canvas to do.

As for the scene itself - I think I'm happy with it. I was kind of nervous doing it. Mr.Bunner/Chiron could have turned out a little better, but oh well. I like the way the Mrs.Dodds/Alecto the Fury turned out, though the handful of snakes I put in her hair get lost, I think she has a nice creepy quality. As for Percy, even though he has a number of physical similarities to Harry Potter, I wanted to make sure they looked like different people and I think it worked out pretty well. I'm extremely happy with how his sword, Riptide turned out; the blade and the EFX. 
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Awesome! This is amazing!