Painting for Ray Bradbury Week in August.
I finished the painting for the upcoming Ray Bradbury week. As I briefly mentioned in the previous post with the rough paintings, it's a cool idea organized by a Steven Leiva, who is a friend of Ray Bradbury. He put out a call to artists to contribute art for Bradbury's 80th birthday coming up in August.
Lou Romano first told me about this, and I thought it would be really fun to try to do a painting of one of my favorite Bradbury stories. I always really liked Farenheit 451, so started thinking about that story.
I settled on featuring the scary hound that tracks down books and burns them. I also really wanted to make the hound as scary as possible, and I got my inspiration from a steam train. Something so basic and just hard core functional about a steam engine, and the mechanics necessary to run those beasts. That's how I pictured the "book sniffing hound" in Farenheit 451. I'd imagine that they wouldn't build the flame shooting hound with any sleek design. It would be a functional machine that has only what's necessary to accomplish it's mission. If it gets damaged, attacked, or what ever, there will be another one to replace it. I also think it'll operate on a gas engine of some sort. You'd have to pull the cord like a lawn mower just to get the beast going!! That'll be really cool. Here's the finished painting.
Lou Romano first told me about this, and I thought it would be really fun to try to do a painting of one of my favorite Bradbury stories. I always really liked Farenheit 451, so started thinking about that story.
I settled on featuring the scary hound that tracks down books and burns them. I also really wanted to make the hound as scary as possible, and I got my inspiration from a steam train. Something so basic and just hard core functional about a steam engine, and the mechanics necessary to run those beasts. That's how I pictured the "book sniffing hound" in Farenheit 451. I'd imagine that they wouldn't build the flame shooting hound with any sleek design. It would be a functional machine that has only what's necessary to accomplish it's mission. If it gets damaged, attacked, or what ever, there will be another one to replace it. I also think it'll operate on a gas engine of some sort. You'd have to pull the cord like a lawn mower just to get the beast going!! That'll be really cool. Here's the finished painting.
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