Sheltered Deck

Other background design needed for the steamship was, inside the cabin class area,

the Promenade sheltered Deck.

Here are some pictures from the place around 1940's

RMS Queen Mary - Sun Deck

The next background I needed is the Game Space over the RMS Queen Mary, at the Sun Deck. There steamship is huge and now is placed in south California as an Hotel.

In the story a young lady, in a yellow dress, finds the love of her life, a young officer from the UK Royal Navy. This happened at the late 1930's so the place was brand new. I placed that scene over the game space in the Sun Deck, part of the Cabin Class or First Class. Obviously all the pictures from that time are in B&W so I had to imagine the colors or how were the new materials.

Here are some pictures how was the game space in other liners.

And here the painting.

Living Room Digital Painting

And finally the Living room, so I finished all the layouts of the interior of the house.

The idea was to keep the very late evening from the window in contrast with the warm light from the fire, it was fun, but took me a day...

His Armchair is bigger, with a pattern and next to a O2 tank, on the other hand it is her chair, more rounded and compact, but keeping both in the same family by value and color. The house is from an old couple that have being living there for a long time, so tried to be very careful on the choices on the furniture and style. The meet in 1920 on a vessel and we are now 50 years later on this old style house. He was a Sailor and thats because all the pictures are ocean paintings. 

I worked to keep the consistency trough the house on the Entrance and Dining Room.

Thanks Ken for the input about the rug for the composition and Anthony for the lighting comments.

Old Dining Room painting

Here is a background painting, an old house's dining room.

and some stages...

Attic speed painting

Bernard and the Poppies

Bernard and the poppies (WIP)

This is the last painting I have made so far. It is still WIP but it will be something similar, Bernard at the flower shop from the story "Anniversaire", part of my thesis for the MFA. Continue practicing some more loose painting.

Caricature - Sebastián Piñera

Two hours to do this.... needed something to practice so chose one and draw a very fast cartoon of the Chilean President, Sebastián Piñera.

This is the final one... no details, fast painting.

Meet the real one!

Bernard & wife shot

Bernard and his wife.

I tried a new way to paint, more loose and fast for the characters... learning.

WIP: Bernard & wife shot

The Feather Pillow

This is a storyboard I made for a short story written in 1917 by the Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga, called "El Almohadón de Plumas" (The Feather Pillow). It is a simple adaptation with simple characters.

The young couple just got married, starting a new life together...

For three months - they had been married in April - they lived in a special kind of bliss.

Alicia passes the days on that hostile house trying not to
think about anything till her husband arrived each evening.

It is not strange that she grew thin. She had a light attack of influenza
that dragged on insidiously for days and days.

Jordan's doctor examined her with minute attention, prescribing calm and absolute rest.

Jordan kept her as the doctor said, trying to have her back as soon as possible.

When she awakened the following day, Alicia was worse.

The doctors returned, but to no avail.
They saw before them a diminishing life, a life bleeding away day by day,
hour by hour, absolutely without their knowing why.

Suddenly Alicia began to have hallucinations, vague images,
at first seeming to float in the air, then descending to floor level.

The lights were lighted all day long in her bedroom, and there was complete silence.
Hours went by without the slightest sound. 

Finally, Alicia died.

The servant, when she came in afterward to strip the now empty bed,
stared wonderingly for a moment at the pillow.

Servant: "Sir!"

Servant: "There are stains on the pillow that look like blood."

Jordan approached rapidly and bent over the pillow.
Truly, on the case, on both sides of the hollow left by Alicia's head,
were two small dark spots.
"Hold it up to the light," Jordan told her. 

The servant raised the pillow but immediately dropped it and stood staring at it.

Jordan: "What is it?"

"It's very heavy," the servant whispered, still trembling 

They carried it out of the room, and over the table...

...he ripped open the case and the ticking with a slash.

The top feathers floated away,
the servant opened her mouth widely giving a scream of horror.

In the bottom of the pillow case, among the feathers,
slowly moving its hairy legs, was a monstrous animal,
a living, viscous ball. It was so swollen one could barely make out its mouth.

Night after night, since Alicia had taken to her bed,
this abomination had stealthily applied its mouth to the girl's temples,
sucking her blood.

"These parasites of feathered creatures, diminutive in their habitual environment, reach enormous proportions under certain conditions. Human blood seems particularly favorable to them, and it is not rare to encounter them in feather pillows."