This image has been a two month labor of love. I started it in December, got horribly frustrated with it after a week or so, and put it away for a bit. I worked on it off and on at the beginning of January, but finally pulled it out and finished it in the last few days.

This has been my most challenging and most complicated painting to date. I wanted to really make the painting sensual, and give the viewer the feeling that they could reach in and touch the various textures and elements in it. I looked at a lot of old master paintings for the feeling of old world decadence.

Figure is referenced from this image: http://linzstock.deviantart.com/art/Dark-Moods-10-69724986

Most of the textures here are hand made, though I borrowed one or two from http://www.cgtextures.com/

This is a record breaker. It tops out at around 90 layers in Painter. (hooray for new computers!)