When I moved out of my old apartment at the end of April 2013, I thought I had put all of my paintings into storage. There were some sheets of cardboard and matting board in the bottom of my car trunk all this time. As I started making plans to pack up for my return to Los Angeles from Oregon, I thought that I might as well get rid of those sheets. After two years of having baggage scraped over them, I wasn’t going to be using them in artwork.
So today, as I am preparing to repack the car, I pulled up to the dumpster to get rid of them. I opened the trunk and started to gather up the sheets. Except, there was more under them than I thought. Three canvas boards, in fact. Three pieces of fan-art done before I moved from Texas to California.
The first one I painted after the original Star Wars movie came out.
The others were done after each film was released. The one for The Empire Strikes Back turned out all right, with parts of it that I really like.
I did Yoda in blue in the lower right because I needed the background to be green.
Having done two paintings, when The Return of the Jedi came out, I of course had to finish the set. In that painting, I had problems trying to get Harrison Ford’s face right. It was a challenge.
I think the composition of this one turned out the best.
All in all, it amused me that for some reason these three pieces have been traveling around with me for two years and I didn’t realize it.
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