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I’ve recently been giving my work a lot of thought in regards to what I want my art medium to be.  To that end I’ve decided that I’m going to focus more intently from here on out on my oil painting.  This extends, hopefully, to my commissions.  I’ve never painted this fast before and I hope it’ll turn out well.  Whereas I normally do an oil piece in 2 to 3 weeks this time around I’m going for 2-3 days.  Last night I did some thumbnails and figured out an image I thought would be fun to paint.  Then I took some quick reference.  If I had any guts I share that too but this is the Internet and since I used myself as reference, that’s not going to happen.  Yes, I know Domino is a hot babe and I’m a slightly above average manimal but you’d be surprised how the artist mind wields reference shots and imagination.  My wife got a good laugh out of it asking me why in the world was I standing like that.  Here are the pencils before the paint.

And just for FYI, I’ve finished the oil paints on the black queen image I’d been working on.  I just have to wait for a few of the white parts to dry some I can put some retouch varnish over it to bring back the colors.