Happy Thanksgiving! New Page and inspiration found in Coeur Fidele...

The character 'Marie' in a film still from Jean Epstein's1923 French
drama, Coeur fidèle

She Turned Out the Light....and Edward Steichen's Influence

"She Turned Out the Light..." from The Color of Silence is Radium Green graphic novel
(in progress)

Remember that picture of the drawing started in the previous post. Here is the entire inked page, completed!
Onto the next page.
Where did I get at least some of my inspiration for the close up images of a glowing Beverly? Edward Steichen's 1924 portrait of Gloria Swanson behind Venetian lace:

Edward Steichen, "Gloria Swanson" 1924

More Radium Girls...the project continues

"Doreen Challenges Ursula" from The Color of Silence
is Radium Green graphic novel.

 "Beverly Exhales Radium" cell from The Color of Silence is
Radium Green graphic novel.

"Her Bones and Cells glow with Radium" three cells from The Color of
Silence is Radium Green graphic novel.

To be continued....

Radium Girls Comic Book Pages....

So the radium girls comic book is moving along. Here are the second and third pages. The pages below are different sizes because I realized that causing myself to go blind when drawing was entirely unnecessary, and I increased the size of page 3 (on the right). I can alter the size of page 2 in Photoshop....