Seed of a Pomegranate Cradled by the Tail of a Cat (Born from the Mane of a Skull-faced Horse)

11" x 14" smooth bristol

Prismacolor pencils (including red and blue Col-Erase pencils); X-Acto knife; Pigma Microns for the eye socket and mouth

Estimated time: 13 hours?

Inspiration: Salvador Dalí

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My first post from AIPD. I didn't get enough sleep this morning (went to bed around 12:30) and so I carpooled instead of driving to Gateway. I'm stuck here until 5:00, and I'll be walking across the Hawthorne Bridge in the rain with Uncle Larry. Adventure time!

Anyway, this is my Color Theory final, turned in earlier today. The final itself was creating a book cover from the original artwork (which itself was to be based on the style of a well-known artist). Aunt Pam took me to FedEx / Kinko's last night to get it scanned and saved on a CD; the scan turned out very well! Over 4,000 x 3,000 pixels - in three different formats - is a great deal. Makes me want to take older large works in and get them put on CDs!

I am very pleased with how this turned out. For its size, it was completed in record time. I have learned to love the slow but rewarding method of layering color after color after color, lights first, followed by darks: it yields very smooth, velvety hues!

It is also my first Prismacolor piece in which I did not incorporate ballpoint pen or markers (save for the eye socket and inner part of the mouth, which I wanted very black). The pomegranate sections were fun and rather challenging.

I'll get my drafts and detail shots up soon.