Pop Goes the Artist!

I started this painting over Christmas break, but thanks to the joys of living away from home, didn’t get to finish it until this weekend. (However, you might have seen a work in progress photo on the website.) I painted this because I love old Beetles, pure and simple. I used a reference photo someone from WetCanvas gave me, but I just had to change the color from white to powder blue, which is my favorite. I’m reasonably happy with the way this turned out. I didn’t initially like the yellow-orange/powder blue combination, but I think it’s a good fit and they complement each other nicely. I think the composition is a little shaky, but that might just be me. I never know what to do with backgrounds anyway. In real life, by the way, the black in the shadows is actually, well, black. Not sure why that didn’t turn out in the photograph. Glare? (Acrylic on canvas, 20×24″)

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