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Norman Bates Motel

Published: April 2nd 2020, 2:01:21 pm

I've been trying to figure out what to do with this watercolor for a while now.

It's good on its own but not really something you'd put on a t-shirt and Redbubble's licensing program is why I was painting stuff from Psycho in the first place.

I wanted to do something with the house since it's so iconic and also fucking cool. But painting the house, or even just drawing it, proved to be out of my wheelhouse. So today I just tried tracing it with the pen tool. It absolutely feels like cheating, but I really like the way it looks. I'm sure at some point I'll convince myself that it's ok to "cheat" at art by using tools that make it easier. 

Then it was just a matter of moving things around till I found a composition I liked. I say that like it *didn't* take hours to do that. But... *shrug emoji* My conscious brain isn't really running on all four cylinders right now. Six cylinders? However many cylinders it's supposed to run on.

Anyway.

It's up on redbubble now so you can be the first kid on your block to get one.

https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/46385848?ref=studio-promote