After about 13 hours of work, an epic journey to search for more gouache paint in Berkeley with Sarah, the deed is finally done. The result is a muted, temperature changing painting featuring Heath Ledger's 'Joker' from The Dark Knight as a subject. The process, as you may know, was incredibly long and tedious. Yet, I'll give you a taste of what it was like:

1st: To trace shapes from the posterized image, which ended up looking like ...

... this. Transfer paper is underneath to trace the image to an illustration board.

2nd: Line art appears from the tracing, which means ready to paint.

3rd: Paint.

4th: Just about done, almost 10 hours later.

5th: Mounting the painting with heavyweight cardboard, vellum, and cardstock.

6th: The final piece, all mounted.

7th: All done!

It looks nice! I can't wait to hear its feedback during the critique and I hope that I get this piece back. I want this for myself. Anyways, as frustrating and time-consuming as it was, its looks all right, don't you think?