Digital Painting - Sirens

I'm going to have two paintings in a gallery show called "Femme Fatale". This is a color study I did for the solo painting I'm submitting. The painting itself will be in watercolor and guoache, whereas this unfinished color study was done in Adobe Photoshop.

I'm working on the final painting and it's really exiting, but I still haven't decided what color the sirens should be. Does anyone think some kind of purple would look better?

Onocentaur

"Onocentaur"

18"x24"

Marker on paper

I heard somewhere that donkeys don't like dogs and can actually be trained to guard livestock by chasing off coyotes. I don't know whether this is true, but the comment illicited from me a dramatic and strangely humorous mental image of strife between dog and donkey. This piece is loosely inspired by that mental image. In this case, one finds a half-man half-donkey creature being accosted by domestic dogs (although they arguably don't look like domestic dogs, maybe I should have picked a particular breed and gotten a picture, but hindsight's 20/20.)

I really like how this turned out. Imperfections aside, I think it captured the feel I was going for. I didn't exactly want a violent image. I wanted to capture the tension of a situation that has not yet erupted in actual violence. In this case, both parties are about evenly matched and stand a good chance of serious injury. There's barking, growling, anxious rearing but either side has yet to make a deffinitive move. I naively thought all of this was self-evident from the image, and that the forty minute critique would require little explaination on my part. In actuality my genuinely supportive classmates were confused about exactly what was happening in the picture, but where nonetheless enthusiastic. My crits often go like this.

A sketch for a big drawing I did. I can't remember why I wrote the single word "Privation" in the corner.

Ono-Centaur

This is the corner of a piece I did. The piece was medium sized and done in copic and prismacolor markers, prismacolor colored pencils. The outline is done in brown pen and I'm suprised at how much I like that.

I think I've overlooked an important piece of info. I have posted only a fraction of the piece. This was all I could fit on my rinky-dink scanner. I keep hoping some thought will come over me, like "Kinko's might have scanners!" this has not happened. I'm sure I'll think of something.

Unfortunately the bottom and left contain pivotal information.