DUDE! FTW! You are dead right. It's a painting called Mabelleine (sp) by the artist Rick Berry before he went all digital. I think the painting itself is more like ten or fifteen years old. I think I first saw it on the cover of the Tir na nOg sourcebook in '94 or something when my room mate at the time (Mike Jackson, coincidentally) was doing drawings for RPG sourcebooks. I found a lithograph of the painting and promised myself that I would buy it when I had amassed enough money. I did that back in 2001 or 2002. I got in mounted and framed. It's big. I also did that in Scotland. I live in Vancouver now. Framed prints that size are hard to ship. So the painting's still in Scotland. I love the painting because she has eighties hair, twenties stocking, sort of a forties femme fatale skirt, giant shoulder pads in her leather jacket and a derringer from the wild west on her hip. Like someone immortal would pick up clothes as they needed them with zero idea of what's 'in' right now and eventually, they'd end up with a mish-mash of styles in their wardrobe. Plus, in the painting, it looks like she's catching fire and is only mildly curious about the fact. Looking at it in detail later, it looks more like she's got some sort of 'smoke glove' or something but I prefer to see it the other way. Either way, yeah, one of my favourite paintings ever. Good eye! Here it is.
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Date: 2008-09-09 05:53 pm (UTC)I found a lithograph of the painting and promised myself that I would buy it when I had amassed enough money. I did that back in 2001 or 2002. I got in mounted and framed. It's big. I also did that in Scotland. I live in Vancouver now. Framed prints that size are hard to ship. So the painting's still in Scotland.
I love the painting because she has eighties hair, twenties stocking, sort of a forties femme fatale skirt, giant shoulder pads in her leather jacket and a derringer from the wild west on her hip. Like someone immortal would pick up clothes as they needed them with zero idea of what's 'in' right now and eventually, they'd end up with a mish-mash of styles in their wardrobe. Plus, in the painting, it looks like she's catching fire and is only mildly curious about the fact.
Looking at it in detail later, it looks more like she's got some sort of 'smoke glove' or something but I prefer to see it the other way.
Either way, yeah, one of my favourite paintings ever.
Good eye!
Here it is.
http://www.roliste.com/couv/4210.jpg
and I think this may have been the same model.
http://www.rickberrystudio.com/images/pages/G7_2.html
And sorry to write a novel here Jhayne. Yikes. Yakkety yakkety yak.