Vance quickly realized that he liked batting. He was pretty good at it. Bruce loved sharing baseball with Vance but Bruce hated pitching. He didn't like it as much as batting.
So now it's become a whole thing. Finney's their pitcher, Robin's yelling from the dugout and Griffin and Billy are running around trying to catch the baseballs. It's chaos.
note: I’m kinda confused on Vance and Bruce since it said that Vance was the fourth one to go missing but he was taken last spring of 77 but Bruce was taken in July of 78.
After yesterday's horror, let's go with something bright and fluffy. This one is Tangerine with Feathers, from 2002. I made it as a Christmas gift for one of my sisters. Rainbowbirb FTW!
I used Prismacolor pencils over watercolor for this piece.
I can't stop thinking about Radek trying to get ahold of Rodney and Griffen during Grace Under Pressure. Hailing them, calling out, "Griffen and McKay come in."
Then his exclamation of, "Rodney! Thank God! We thought you …" when Rodney finally responds.
That immediate switch from his last name to his first name.💚
He thought Rodney was dead, they all did, and despite this they didn't stop trying, didn't give up hope, just kept hailing them for over an hour. 😭
Finney and Robin were walking down the hallway oblivious to anyone around. Robin had clearly been in a fight that day, his knuckles were wrapped, band-aid on his cheek and split lip. Finney was saying something to Robin while gently holding his hand.
Billy thought they made a hot couple, Griffin disagreed because, "Sure they make a hot couple but Finney is obviously pretty not hot". Billy has never wanted to punch someone more in his life.
Now here they are, waiting for Finney and Robin at their usual after school spot, fighting. Bruce calls it disagreeing. Billy calls it fighting.
Billy and Bruce are team Hot Finney and Griffin and Vance are team Pretty Finney. They've been arguing since lunch. Bruce thinks Finney can be both hot and pretty and while everyone agrees to that Vance thinks Finney is the definition of pretty and can sometimes be hot.
When Finney and Robin get close enough all they hear is yelling. Apparently Griffin bit Billy. Vance is calling both Bruce and Billy idiots and Bruce is calling Vance and Griffin morons.
Before Finney and Robin can even question what's going on the guys walk away mad. Vance and Griffin go one way and Bruce and Billy go the other way.
I was in a very experimental mood when I made this. I colored the dracogryph with Prismacolors first, then painted in the background with acrylics. Unfortunately, I taped off the gryph before painting, and the masking tape took up quite a bit of the wax from the pencils when I removed it. I had to rework quite a bit, and I ended up punching the yellow highlights with acrylic to make them pop better.
The one thing I would have liked to do is hit all those yellows with UV-reactive paint. At the time I made this, that paint was still expensive and not readily available. So this is yet another idea that I want to try again one day with different materials and a more mature technique.