PRIVATE SHOW

I thought this was a rather strange, but interesting scene along the Pride parade route. What was going on under the Pride flag, I have no idea. Whatever it was everyone was attentive and fixated on the performance.

 

Yes, I distorted the perspective I like that on some tableau-esque kind of scenes. It makes it seem long or deeper . . . etc.

 

If I could draw, I always liked the texture and look of those colored oil-sticks. I watched several people work in those and I like how a thumb or forefinger rubbed on the applied color can feather,, blend, create shade and other various techniques.

 

So I tried to duplicate the smudged effect, darker shadows, and an absence of sharply defined features. I also like to use boosted highlights for a number of visual reasons. One certainly is to call attention to them and their different positions, and add a bit of depth.

 

This is all more instinctual then any formal training. It's like some young fellow who was blowing smoke said, "You certainly know a lot about wine." Well, I don't. I really don't. No false modesty. So proceded to spin a yarn around the ritual of a tableside wine opening.

 

And I'm serious, this young meathead, leaned close so as not to drop a single one of my verbal pearls.

 

After the sacred Reading of the Label, , cork feeling, sniff 'n swirl and whatever else, I concluded with, "Then you come to the final test . . . You drink deeply and ask yourself, 'Does this swill taste good to me?'"😇

 

The look on his face was priceless, like he just found out there is no Santa Claus.

Done