Here's a painting that's had a fairly long gestation period, and has finally popped out at the end of my RISD career. Sophomore year, my Illustration 1 teacher gave us an assignment to pick a word and illustrate it. I chose the word "exposed" and made a fairly shitty oil painting (we had two weeks) loosely inspired by the color palette and style of Michael Hussar. I liked my concept, but not the execution, so junior year I took a class called Oil Techniques for Illustrators, and I redid the piece...but I never finished it.

So, this spring, a week before my senior show, I worked overtime to finish the painting, and this is the result. I'm pretty happy with it and I guess other people were too, because they picked it for the Senior Invitational show at the end of the year. Wooo!

In case you're having trouble figuring it out (some people did)...yes, that is her Siamese twin doing a handstand under her skirt.