Shannon Larratt is Zentastic

I picked up my painting, St. Sebastian, from the framing place and they did a wonderful job with a beautiful traditional design gold leaf frame that really brings out the painting. For now I’ve hung it over the door to our living room. Click the first picture to see the painting at high resolution (it’s stitched together from two separate photos, and my camera is not the greatest quality, so it’s not doing the painting justice), or the second picture for a detail shot of two of the faces. I mentioned this before, but this is painted partially with a syringe — that’s how I applied the heavy line-work. The remainder is painted with a brush, knife, or with fingers, and the paint is primarily acrylic with gel medium and various varnishes added.

And yes, my little photobomber could not resist running through the shot. At least she’s not flipping the bird. And also yes, I was more than a little worried about falling to my demise as I stood on the top step of the ladder mounting this far-from-light piece of art. The folks at the framing place were kind enough to take the time to show me step-by-step how these frame moldings are made, and now that I understand, I think I feel comfortable in starting to making my own sculpted frames out of resin and wood.

Since I’m always asked, this painting is for sale but it’s not cheap (not just because it was time consuming and I value my creations, but because it wasn’t cheap to make with all the materials that went into it). Feel free to contact me if you’re seriously interested.