Painting Sina

'HIGA' and 'Passing Storm'

A couple of months before the storm hit, I decided to give it a go.
To go where no man has gone before and paint 'Here I Go Again'
('HIGA' for short). As for 'Voggy', I had already experimented and
'incorporated' the ' Voggy's Outdoor Ukulele ' water sequence into
Ramrod episode 9 . It inspired that episode. It made that episode
happen. It was the hardest animation sequence I had created, it
took ages and the detail nearly 'dun me eyes in'. I sincerely hope
I haven't inadvertently breached any copyright laws doing this.

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Painting 'HIGA' was a challenge. I had bought some more
canvases and decided to do two paintings at once. That way,
while one was drying I could paint the other. The other was
'Passing Storm'. It's ironic, 'Passing Storm' was a painting
of a real storm, that passed by months before storm Eunice.
I think storm Eunice became jealous of 'Passing Storm' and
so decided to attack me and crash my tower computer!

Painting 'Passing Storm' went well though. I varnished it and
uploaded a photo within a month. I can't say the same for 'HIGA'.
Even though I chose the larger 500 x 400 canvas, over the 400
x 300 canvas that I used for 'Passing Storm', it was just not large
enough. I started off with a full, head to toe painting of Sina but
I was unable to achieve the face detail that I wanted so I had to
reluctantly increase the body width. I wrestled with a squashed
'HIGA' , for 3 months but in the end the battle was lost. There
comes a time, when you have to call it a day on a painting so
I did and 'HIGA' lost those famous bare feet. I was gutted.

Head to toe	Sina appears	Background

Losing feet!	Sunlight splash	Aha! I have an idea

After a cuppa and some broken biscuits, the sun came out.
The sunlight splashed onto the painting and with increasing
brightness she lit up. Wow! What have I created here. I was
revitalised, my eyes watered and an idea involving some
cling film and a felt tip pen sprang to mind. Intrigued?...
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