Home

private commission: “love is the only real adventure”- tara and remi

Tara com­mis­sio­ned me to do a large ori­gi­nal ink-on-paper for her boy­friend, Remi’s birthday.

Tara and Remi have been a cou­ple for just over two years. Recently they went to India and had a REAL adven­ture together.

So I did something incor­po­ra­ting “Love” and “Adven­ture”. It see­med to fit, it see­med to desc­ribe their relationship.

I drew the black lines on my Tablet PC, then prin­ted it out LARGE with archi­val inks and archi­val fine art paper.

I then pains­ta­kingly added the red by hand, using old-fashioned dip pen and India ink.

While I was wor­king on it, I took a lot of pho­tos as the piece pro­gres­sed. I was terri­fied the whole time of spi­lling that red ink bottle, or making a big mis­take I couldn’t repair. That would have been an utter disas­ter! Luc­kily, neither happened.

Like their rela­tionship, dra­wing the piece also felt like a real adven­ture, and I wan­ted that qua­lity to be appa­rent in the execution.

Yes, it took fore­ver, but we got a really power­ful piece in the end. Hooray!

Thanks to Tara for com­mis­sio­ning such an awe­some bit of work. It was a blast.

[Though I haven’t tal­ked about it too much on the blog, yes, I do pri­vate com­mis­sions. Feel free to con­tact me at gapingvoid@gmail.com if you want to dis­cuss further, Thanks.]