"Phantasm" (12x16 oil on panel) painting process & animation

Greetings Steemians & Artists,

The following painting was created on a reused panel, as sometimes happens. An occasional scraped painting is not time wasted. It's more like warming up before a workout; what needs to happen before the real work begins. After the scrape, I was then able to sit in silence and conceive of an idea to be enthusiastic about.

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A scrape:

The setup (this got shifted around during the process...you'll see why):

The block-in:

A ghostly secondary block-in:

Next stage. Painting the focus first:

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And the finished painting, "Phantasm" (12x16 oil on panel, 2013):

And here is an animation of the painting process:

Thanks for reading! -David

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