The inspiration behind this painting is the book Water for Elephants. It's a beautiful book and the pocket-watch is a small but significant icon in the story about a tag-along on a depression era traveling circus train.
The watch itself was pretty hard to paint. I started this before we moved but the greys/greens/blues are all very deceiving. The edges of the painting have made quite a few journeys... first grey, then white, then green... and are now red because I decided that I wanted to do the edges similar to the spine of the book which has a red and black stripe pattern (as shown below).
I think it will be cool once the edges are done!
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This came out beautiful! The level of detail is amazing! It looks JUST LIKE the original watch!
Very cool. I am amazed how realistic it is!
Steampunk Supply put you on facebook and now I am following you and your blog. I love your art, it is so realistic. I need to learn how to paint that way.
Thanks Vickie, Steampunk Supply has the coolest stuff! I love getting feedback from new followers :)
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