Woman in a Crimson Red Dress

Woman in a Crimson Red Dress (2009)

acrylic on canvas panel

12" x 16"

A painting in the vein (or trying to be!) of an old hardboiled paperback cover. Total painting time was 12 hours.

This painting has a timelapse video, so you can watch my painting process here.

There's also an early comp of this painting. You can see the initial color scheme, which was the initial basis for the painting (crimson against a yellowish olive green), though I changed the pose completely in the final version.