A few years back I got to participate in a group show curated by a friend of mine. The theme kind of revolved around hot rods and pin up gals and that sort of thing, and as I thought Nouvelle Vague's take on it was evocative, I kind of ran with it. After dithering forever, I came up with this:
..I actually was fairly pleased with how it turned out, but ultimately I decided it felt too literal for the genre, so I redid it. Here is a final rough:
I've always liked the graphic poster look, and gouache of course lends itself very well to it. I was in such a rush to redo it that I never did photograph the final. Happily though, it ended up selling.
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