At Ease

 Final product!

I'm still very proud of this piece.  The actual piece is about 17 x 22. I think >_> It may be more. I'm too lazy to go and measure it. Some major differences between this and the practice wedge is in the colors. The flag's the right color, it a lot more blue oriented, the closer trees are now Birch so they stand out from the flag pole, their faces aren't as red, and the anatomy is better. Not to mention I realized that drummers would never be playing their instuments out in this kind of weather, it'd damage it greatly. So I made him be carrying wood instead. For a fire. He just stopped to listen. Not to mention I covered the drum in the foreground with a ground cloth to protect it. YES I KNOW IT IS TAUGHT AND IT SHOULDN'T BE. SHUT UP D: That's the main boo-boo in here involving authenticity, aside from blondy being fuzzy in the face and the drum sling on the wrong shoulder.

Oh yeah, the subject matter is the 'Tittabawassee Fife and Drum Corps.' (Pronounced Tit-ah-bah-wah-see, said fast) and we represent the fifers, drummers and gaurd of the continental marines in the Revolutionary War. We are re-enactors, d'urr. I am in the color gaurd and I carry the flag shown.

Gouache on Watercolor paper.

Artwork © 2006. Kerstin A. Moranec