well... all it's vanity,

so here another little work of my workbench. it all started as "one day kit" to be used as try at some medias and techniques (alclad paints, hair spray, oil pastels, etc. etc.) then my son saw it and liked it so much to convince me to transform a canvas in a paint.... and to try other products, like water effect and pigments!

the alan's kit it's truly basic, yet a good and sturdy base to rage on it with all the stuff I had in mind...

urethane primer/alclad primer:

alclad:

lifecolors acrylics, then hairspary/salt and a sort of modulation with colors:

oil filters. dividing the main body in quarts, yellow, red, siena earth, raw umber (whoops, the doors upside down!)

then cassel and oil pastels!

ton-sur-ton and high contrast (I'm just tryng, remember?)

what else... some dust lifecolor, and mig pigments!

this story could end here, but as said before... "why we don't do a little dio, dad?" and who in the hell am I to say no?!?

a little searching and thinking... and here we are:

the heavy car stuck in the mud, the young and the old waiting for help (oxen? horses?) and enjoyng the forced pause with some music.

so, a pictures wooden frame,

some clay,

and footstep, traces of wheels and beasts.

mmmmmmh... needs some...some... tea, and tobacco, and leaves? why not.

yep, better!

now just some fresh mud and dirty water vallejo (just the water, the dirty it's proudly home made)

and... end? nop. the two guys where, at this point too poor, so I had my first attempt with green stuff...

well...better, uh? somehow...hemingwayan...

and, at last, the real end:

I thought at first to call it "waiting for the deceiving sun" mixing jim morrison and nikita mikhalkov, but I went back to some less complex to explain to my little son...

hoping you'll like this bizarre project, I post the last two pics, to be seen with that on speakers:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xY5TUiqjyBc

bye bye, p.