Her ability to crack the male dominated society of artists is akin to Uma’s portrayal of a ruthlessly effective lead in this action series.Īnd there you have it… Uma Thurman as Beatrix Kiddo, aka, Black Mamba, from Kill Bill 1 & 2. He states, “you’re a damn fine painter, for a woman”. In the upper-left of the canvas I added a Lee Krasner painting… specifically the one she shows to Jackson in the movie Pollock. My well-intended shadows on the neck just didn’t feel right… I knew they had to go. Now we’re getting somewhere… more midtones, the hair is now in-line with the facial tonality. The severity of the highlights in this painting fit the mood of the film, so I left them as they are… added hidden feature? They combine to form an abstract star. Next, it was about adding the highlights, which sharply accentuate Kiddo’s nose, cheekbones and forehead. I decided on a deeper mid-tone orange on the fez.Ī secondary orange… the lips feature female demons holding a samurai sword… they would eventually be (mostly) painted out.Īt full contrast, ready for the highlights.įirst, I spent an entire day painting the streaks in the hair… but they were too dark, so it was a wash. Shadows painted in, two tones in the hair… a dark image at this stage. Nailing down the initial features… here, Uma was getting the thumbs up Facebook style. There is a large swatch of un-collaged surface, most of which was destined to be pure shadow. Starting out with the collage elements… this painting is different from the rest… as the background is collaged.

This was a second photo taken of the same still through a different exposure setting on my camera, so I decided to use this as the palette inspiration. The music goes wee, woooo, weeee, wooo, duh, nuh, nuh….

Here is the entire process in 79 seconds, set to the beats of MH the Verb, featuring Kuf Knotz, and produced by Chuck Mack.Ĭaptured from a paused scene on my TV… this is the shot they roll to each time she runs into someone on her kill list.

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