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Sternwood Sisters

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when i read The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, i wanted to do a painting of the two femmes fatales - Vivian and Carmen Sternwood.

the chair and some parts of carmen's pose were sourced from a stock image (by *faestock [link]) that doesn't seem to exist anymore.

most of this picture, particularly the lighting was made up as i went, so it might be a bit inconsistent or unrealistic, haha :D but as always i am very open to ANY kind of feedback, so if something looks off to you, please let me know and i may be able to fix it later. :)

i think i'm not painting in this style again, it takes too long!

NOTE:
i had trouble with shadows/colours on different monitors. basically you should be able to see some stripes on the back wall (left side particularly), and they should fade to shadow (or at least quite dark) by the right side of the wall.
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Oh yeah, they are definitely a pair of sinister sisters to be reckoned with. No wonder Bogey had a fear of having his teeth knocked out and getting kicked in the stomach for mumbling when these two torrid, twisted temptress decided to start asking questions. One wonders if their father might find himself self in such bad shape because of his loving daughters bringing him that daily dose of anti freeze in his tea to resolve that little issue of dad not approving of how they drink, whore, and gamble away their allowance.