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Michael R. Barrick

(a.k.a Atratus)


Red Chair Painting #4
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Red Chair Painting #4 (Tristan Risk)
24" x 30"
Acrylic on canvas.

Andra Diamond Minx 6362 (Red Chair Recursion)
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Andra Diamond Minx wearing bracelet, earrings and choker from Art of Adornment.

Works in Progress
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The early stages of the fourth Red Chair painting. This a very poor quality photo so a lot of the nuance of the colours is lost.



A few bits and bobs for my next steampunk project. I'm not saying what it is yet other than it will be a product for Elaine's store, Art of Adornment.

Red Chair #4 Started
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The beginning of Red Chair #4

Red Chair #3 rephotographed
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Red Chair #3 - Nicholas
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All done. I think the jacket came out rather well. I had a hell of a time photographing this, though The face is over-exposed. I'll have to reshoot it on a sunny day. I couldn't get the artificial light even enough.

EDIT 07/01/22: I've replaced the image with a decent photograph with the proper colours and exposure.

Red Chair #3 Almost Done
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Earlier today I finished off the vest. I knew I was going to have trouble with this before I even started. It's the reason I picked this image to work with. Nick wore just about the most difficult to paint clothing imaginable. The vest is shiny silk with a grey-on-grey pattern and the jacket has a very subtle black-on-black brocade pattern. I think at this point I've actually spent more time on the vest than the face and hands.



Here's were it is as of a few minutes ago. The biggest job remaining is adding the pattern to the jacket, then it is jewelry, fingernails, and a few minor tweaks.

The colour on this second image is a little closer to life than the top image. I don't spend a lot of time setting these in-progress shots up with proper light so these two images together do a good job of how much the colour can vary from image to image.

Progress on the Third Red Chair Painting
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I haven't had the time to work on this anywhere near as much as I would like, so it's been progressing slowly. I didn't set up this photograph properly so there is a slight glare in the top right that is doing some bad things - there are subtleties in the face and hair that just aren't showing in the picture. I'm going to have to be careful about how I shoot this when it is done.

Red Chair Painting #3 Progress
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I got a little bit of time in on the new Red Chair painting, getting the under-painting done for the light areas, a.k.a. the creepy blue phase.

Red Chair Painting #3 Started
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I've sketched in the outline for the third of the Red Chair paintings.

Progress on this one will likely be fairly slow since I still have a lot of other constraints on my time over the next three or four weeks, after that a lot of things will start changing.