I've been kicking this one around a while and finally got motivated to finish it when I saw this months image challenge over at Gnomon of Dante's Inferno. I got inspired for this one driving down a wide open country road just east of the foothills between Boulder and Louisville CO. In the middle of blistering hot August day, a couple of road workers were filling potholes and touching up the asphalt with these long propane torches. It struck me as a sort of vision of hell to be out on such a hot day dressed in protective gear and torching a wide open, heat rippled expanse. Anyway that vision stuck with me for a while until I've finally purged it to pixel paint!
5 comments:
Holy shit, Ray! The idea... the execution... just wow, man!
I like it! I hope I'm not intruding on this group, but since I've been lurking here for awhile, I felt I should at least compliment where it's due. Nice job.
brilliant >< what an image to be carrying around for so long!
particularly like the effect on the writhing victim. I couldn't even begin to figure how to execute that! >_<
OMG dude- I feel like I associate your work with being generally up beat and somewhat playful. This piece totally shatters that image.
you got some demons man- best be sorting that out :P
Thanks everyone. I like to think there's playfulness happening in this one too:)
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