My author was an admirer of American realist painters and the southern gothic. I did my best to capture some Wyeth-ness in the Benny/Impala painting, then switched gears to my a tolerable Hopper impression for Benny at the bus-stop. It ended up with way more Benny by the side of the road than I had originally intended.
Finally, finally, I've painted a shippy portrait. My money was on Dean/Cas being the first to that honor, but instead it goes to Dean/Benny. I did not see that coming.
Ahhh, thank you! One of the big discussions I had with my author was about the second pic, "No Vacancies." I drew building details from 40s street photographs as well as the empty paints of Hopper.
One of the things we talked about was the external curtains on the outside of the restaurant/motel thingie. Curtains are kind of a weird detail, but they were used a bit before the spread/popularity of the awning. The reference photo that I used was this really fantastic screen scene from Chicago, and there were a profusion of out-of-doors curtains.
I was attracted to the clumsy visual metaphor of curtains. They're a detail out of time, much like Benny is. I imagined this scene as being part and parcel with Benny leaving Dean because awful shit's gone down, and he thinks it's better this way. I wanted to point up the emptiness, and the hollowness, and the finality of Benny's decision (though more stuff goes down in the fic afterward, because this is Dean we're talking about). So curtains it was, even though they felt weird (almost
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My author was an admirer of American realist painters and the southern gothic. I did my best to capture some Wyeth-ness in the Benny/Impala painting, then switched gears to my a tolerable Hopper impression for Benny at the bus-stop. It ended up with way more Benny by the side of the road than I had originally intended.
Finally, finally, I've painted a shippy portrait. My money was on Dean/Cas being the first to that honor, but instead it goes to Dean/Benny. I did not see that coming.
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One of the things we talked about was the external curtains on the outside of the restaurant/motel thingie. Curtains are kind of a weird detail, but they were used a bit before the spread/popularity of the awning. The reference photo that I used was this really fantastic screen scene from Chicago, and there were a profusion of out-of-doors curtains.
I was attracted to the clumsy visual metaphor of curtains. They're a detail out of time, much like Benny is. I imagined this scene as being part and parcel with Benny leaving Dean because awful shit's gone down, and he thinks it's better this way. I wanted to point up the emptiness, and the hollowness, and the finality of Benny's decision (though more stuff goes down in the fic afterward, because this is Dean we're talking about). So curtains it was, even though they felt weird (almost ( ... )
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