3/12/2014
Today’s piece is inspired by Lieutenant Cookies, she posted a photo of herself and indeed is the real life embodiment of Ursula, so of course I had to paint that. Isn’t she just awesome?
I painted this on my iPad using ArtRage, I had a lot of fun mixing up the thickness of paints.
I don’t normally do straight paintings of established characters like this. Just painting someone else’s art makes me feel like I’m copying, but this time I wanted to do a painting of Ursula the Sea Witch because she is just plain awesome. Not only is she a great villain but she’s a woman in power and control of her life and her body. Sure she is is evil, but she still has everything else going for her, and she makes a really good role model. I always liked her songs and liked her attitude.
“Never under estimate the power of BODY LANGUAGE! Ha!”
I hope to one day get a cool Ursula costume going for myself, I just want to make sure that when I do, her tentacles look awesome, not cheap, that’s the big thing holding me back right now.
Ursula doesn’t apologize for anything, she takes up space and fills a room, and if she’s really mad, she just gets bigger. She’s plain awesome.