Oil on canvas, been a while.
It should dry in a couple of days. This image is the underlay. Painting over a bunch of bananas. As is tradition.
24” x 18”
Just three people who would probably feel awkward at the Saucon Valley After School Satan Club.
I should have paid them for those Santeria rites, but I couldn’t get the blood stains out of my evening kilt and crushed velvet davenport arm rests. I was out of pocket. Besides, I suspect they stole brandy. Undaunted, I still rely on them for testimonials.
Round 2
A little color.
Round 3
Darkened everything but the center top. Everything in the background gets a wash with dull, textured light grey in a few days.
Round 4
after forest fires abated in intensity of trapped oily smoke, another layer
Round 4.5
I cleaned it up a bit. Clean up on aisle hand. Detailed the shattered Starship launchpad. Just embellishing. Clean up on aisle skin tone.
Better tonal continuity and whatnot. I started to give the skin of the haters more detail. More blotch. More Botox. More wattle. More better.
Round 4.5.1
Working on steel, ejecta and rubble of damaged launch structure. One of the support pylons received a uniform transformation. I wiped the blob of paint off the blazer after I took the photo.
Hanky, Midjourney hand issues.
I gave him a bigger cup. I gave him a double cup, and what did he do-
– where’d he go?
His hand is giving me daymares.
Fifty State Banana 