Patriarchy: Happiness is Women w/o [an] Education and/or Clitorises. 2012. Acrylic on Panel. 18″ x 32″

Detail showing the charcoal outlining- lots of ruler work, this time done by a young assistant who has an obsessive eye for detail.

Detail of AK-47 charcoal outlining done by the assistant, a high school student.  Makes me shudder now.

I sort of liked the way this looked on its own.

The basic underpainting.  For detail work I like to use Golden Acrylics because of their high pigment load.  I’ll use Golden Fluid Acrylics or Windsor & Newton Acrylics for the large swaths of colour because they spread better.  You’ll also notice the composition looks odd without the “reflective” edge framing the sign.

A seemingly better, or at least more unified, composition due to the “reflective” edge, here painted white.  I left the sporadically painted section on the bottom alone because it seemed like a fitting allusion to bullets being fired out of the gun.

Detail showing the large swaths of multiple layers of colour.

Detail of the AK.  I also left this grey, not because I wanted to make it look more metallic, but because the grey made it seem more menacing.