Fairyanika. The Warrior Fairy.

This painting was a 2 year process.

So I got the basic idea for this painting from one of my favorites Comic Artist ever, Randy Green [link] . I love how simple, sharp and cool his style is.

But also, I wanted to recovered the style that I had in 2002, when I did Tripomatic Fairytales [link] .

It took me more than a month just to do the pencils. Fairyanika was a monster painting, something that I never did before, I felt that when I did the pencils.

The time pass and in February of 2009, Pin Up world Art wanted to do a DVD tutorial featuring Fairyanika. They push me to do it.

To be honest I was reluctant to do it, because a Magician never shows his tricks in front of a camera, specially those he never tried before.

Anyway, Jeff Vangrov (RIP) and me we started filming. I think it twice, I felt it was important to leave something for the future generations of artist, a legacy on film.

It was difficult to paint under 3 (sometimes 4) hot bright lights in that studio that we set. I wanted to do this painting on my studio, with calm and time. But it was not possible.

Then I started to having problems to pay my bills because I was focused only in this project. Pin Up world Art never support me, they actually cut all my funds. So I was there screw it with no money and a lot of bills to pay.

I tried to stop for good because I knew it will be impossible to finish the painting and the video on time and most for all I didn't want to screw that painting, regardless of the video. But the owners of Pin Up world Art force me to finish it. So quitting was not an option. I did not know what to do, how to balance the situation. But I looked to her eyes, Fairyanika's eyes.

"l will have my revenge" she said.

People say that I'm crazy because I talk to my paintings. They say they are just painting and paper. But I know they feel just like us. Just like Picasso's or any other artist paintings. Because they are a piece of us, that materialize and exist, just like a daughter or a son.

The death line to finish the painting was set. I hate death lines, I don't work with death lines, specially when I'm doing something that I never did before.

I hate mornings and I hate the sun light so much, it hurts. But I'm not a lazy bastard. I knew if I woke up early and work all day till midnight, it will may be possible to finish this painting on time and having it filmed by the death line.

I loved her, Fairyanika. She didn't give me any problems at all. She is a warrior. Like willing to be alive.

I hang up Venus [link] and Tripomatic [link] on the wall of that studio that we set. Like I said I was trying to return to those colors and textures that I got in 2002, when I was furious, full of energy feed it by the anger and seek of revenge after that all my art was stole.

So Fairyanika's skin and face came out nicely, I was working all day and late night, filming at the same time. The lights were so bright that I had to paint "blind" and then stop the whole thing and fix the thing again.

After reevaluate the pencils, I didn't like how the hair looks. But that was a mistake on the drawing stage that I did almost a year ago and I notice almost a year later. And after that I applied fixer there was nothing to do. It looks too "wired" not soft. So I leave it like that and I tried to improve it on the color stage. And I did. I like the color that I got. Finally I really got a Redhead look.

The outfit came along nicely, no problem on it, actually it was fun to do it, a lot of mixed colors.

The problem was the wings. I knew, the wings will be difficult.

One week left on the schedule, 4 wings to go. I knew it may take at least a 4 days per wing. That was when I really felt the pressure.

But I looked to her eyes, her beautiful eyes.... and then she smiled to me...she SMILED to me..........the rest was easy...

The wings were something that I never did before, more complex than Tripomatic wings [link] , but I wanted the same look plus I have one last special FX to add on top of it, nuf to said one that I never did before.

Adding the color on the wings was really scary, actually. I'm a very very experienced airbrush artist. I can airbrush a straight-3-feet-long line!. But I screw it, again , I thought I screw the wings in one point and it was filmed, on the record, on tape. I screwed Venus water and I managed to reconstruct all the water again, after a week of work!....time was a luxury now. Time that I did not have at that time. But I managed to fix it . I rushed the wings, I must confess and I hate it. That's why I hate death lines. I looked to her eyes and said "I'm sorry", she smiled again to me, smiled....Then I got angry. Then I got really really drunk and tried to finish the painting once and for all, give the best of myself to her. I even film myself the final take drunk because the camera man had an important meeting that day! LOL. I play the same music in my Ipod ( God I love my Ipod) the same album that I played when I finished Hellish [link] . Music is the most important part of my art. So there I was, in trance, adding real glitter to Fairyanika's fairy wings. She love it.

I finished the painting on schedule and we got it on film . But I sweared, I did swear to God and I sweared to her Fairyanika and myself that I will never do something like that again.

Pin Up World Art never came out with the DVD. That and many more things was the reason why I leave them.

It was a 3 month filming process, two years in the making painting.

I'm not the same artist nor the same person, after that I fished her. I have lost people that I loved, my fault. But, I still have people that love me and I'm fighting for them.

She, Fairyanika.....she is a Warrior Fairy

...with a mission.


Fairyanika's legend : [link]




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