Monster-Mania This & That. A recap, of sorts. Plus a Bane Painting Step-By-Step

As you all know, this weekend was Monster Mania in Cherry Hill, NJ and my wife and I attended, she with her jewelry and me with my art ... Anyway... I apologize in advance, my mind is all over the place as I try to get my shit together after a crazy wonderful weekend.

Monster-Mania was awesome. Both my wife and I did incredibly well and in all the years there we've never seen it so crowded. Sold lots of stuff, met lots of really cool people and made some business contacts. All in all it just gets better every time and we both thank all of you who made it out to show your support and those who were not able to come out but sent us words of encouragement.

We got to catch up with some other vendors with whom we've become friends with over the past few years which is always nice. Picked some brains about what other shows would be good to do... To all of you folks - it was great seeing you and catching up.

Then headed home. Wasn't the smoothest trip in the world with an antsy 3 year old but we made it. Great, great time. Thanks to all involved.

I posted some pictures of the Bane piece I did for Monster Mania but wanted to do a quick little step-by-step of sorts as well with a little bit of explanation.

I hope to have some prints of this one made in the next few weeks once I regain my bearings and whatnot.

Hope you all enjoy!

Kevin

I did this the few days before Monster Mania while we were up in
New York visiting my In-Laws... hence the odd places you'll see me painting.

This is 24" x 36" Acrylic

I decided to do this one with a White Gesso then black base... I am repainting this for someone else who wants to purchase it (as this one sold) so the next time I will try the more traditional method of sketching it on canvas then painting it out... Sketching with the white paint on the black canvas wasn't ideal which I learned when it was too late. Ah well.

Super-rough blocking out shapes. Nothing fancy or particularly pretty.

More rough blocking and starting to think about how I am going to lay out some details.

More details and starting to add some tone to the muscles.

On this piece I decided to improvise with a few details - I added more detail to the shoulder straps than there were in the photo and I also added more brown because while it translated in the photo, the painting looked kind of goofy with an all white body and a brown head... the brown I added to the body was naturally in the shadowed areas of the chest and armpit/turned in portion of the biceps.

Done. Apologies for the Cell Phone photo - I have a hi-res version here on my good camera but don't know where the cord is to transfer it.

Overall, I was pleased with the result. It's one I definitely  look forward to trying again and taking a different approach in terms of execution with the hopes of accomplishing the same or better results.