"just try and stay out of my way. Just try my pretty."

I've been working on the shoe strings and eyelets.  Using 10% to 90% cool greys. I think they are taking me longer than the reds of the shoes.

"Just try and stay out of my way. Just try my pretty."

So as you can see I've decided to make the legs look decisively green. Thanks John for the advice. They may have to go a little lighter but I'm waiting to see.  I've used Dark Green, Celadon Green and Jade Green. The Red in the shoes have a few more layers too. Some of the lightest areas have Blush Pink and everything has Scarlet Lake.  The Red in the shoes will need a little more work but I need to get the rubber parts of the shoes in first to get my values right.  The rubber parts on the left shoe has only a layer of 30% to 90% cool greys and some areas the paper white.

"Just try and stay out of my way. Just try my pretty."

Just rollin' away on this one.  Really It's taken longer than the 4 days of these posts to get this work done.  Probably at least 9 or 10 days.  This shows the Crimson Lake on all layers and then a second layer on just the light areas.  Although my darks are showing up nicely hear they seem to be getting a little lost in areas on the actual drawing.  I might have to go back and re enforce those after I get the next two layers in.  Yes two more layers of red at least before the shoe strings and rubber parts. What do you think about her leg?  Right now it has a light wash as the background.  Can't decide if it needs some layers of green colored pencil to make it stand out.  I'd love to make them hairy legs but I'd never be able to pull it off realistically.

"Just try and stay out of my way. Just try my pretty."

Now we got some Ruby Slippers going on!  Two layers of Tuscan Red in the shadow areas, layers of Raspberry on everything and the right shoe has Crimson Lake on everything.

"Just try and stay out of my way. Just try my pretty."

Now you can see the beginnings of the transformation to red with the tuscan Red.

"Just try and stay out of my way. Just try my pretty."

So the local art gallery http://www.hotshopsartcenter.com/ is having a theme show in December, "Wizard of Oz" So this is my interpretation. First I'd like to thank an old high school friend for the converse sneakers inspiration.  My idea is that the Wicked Witch actually got the Ruby slippers.  Once on they take the personality of the wearer.  It's on watercolor paper with a wash of sap green and black.  The witches colors and remembering she was melted by the water.  Using dark green Prisma colored pencil I worked all the dark shadow areas of the shoes. Yes, they will turn red soon!

POW/MIA

Finished! Kind of.  I always reserve the right to make changes.