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Barnabas Collinsby =strryeyedreamr27

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Barnabas Collins as portrayed by Johnny Depp in the new Dark Shadows film by Tim Burton.

I wanted to give him a hint of a 70's vibe without being too obvious, hence the bright colors. I also looked at a ton of photos and as many videos as I could for the movie to get a good feel for the character.

I hope that I portrayed him well!

Size (in real life): 8"x8"
Medium: Watercolors

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Submitted on: April 24, 2012
Image Size: 3.3 MB
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~i-am-tsukiko Jul 20, 2012 Student General Artist

I want to see this movie so bad

~ShadeOPale May 29, 2012 Hobbyist Traditional Artist

This puts me back in that decade. The colors are so what I remember from my youth and, funny enough, the blues, greens, and yellows of the background actually "vibrate" if you stare at it too long! I love his proud demeanor and bemused expression. It is good to see the use of watercolors, a difficult medium for myself, but one which you obviously excel at. I want this in black light...on my ceiling (where, as a teen, I used to thumbtack all of my groovy posters).

=strryeyedreamr27 Jun 6, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

Thank you for the kind words!

I appreciate them so very much. I'm really glad that the colors came across as very reminiscent of the era, I was worried I hadn't captured quite what I was hoping to with that.