My Art

I just finished the Tower Of Babel painting. It took a couple of weeks to get my bearings on how I wanted to finish it. The painting started off looking a little too illustrative and playful almost like a Dr. Sues illustration. So after a bit of contemplation I built up the reds and the blacks to give it more of an edgy dark look. The lime green is intended to make the tower itself feel a little creepy or eerie looking.
I was completely surprised when I was finished because the dark eerie qualities really happened in the last hour or so of painting. I had reached a point of frustration and had to choose either to give up or do something drastic that might trash the painting. As I first started adding the black I thought I had ruined the whole painting so I just got aggressive with the color and brush strokes which really brought the painting to life.
The tower leans slightly to the left because of how the drawing was constructed to achieve the upward winding movement. Though this was not intentional it adds to the mystery of the painting...I hope.
You can view the whole painting here and some more close-ups here.