Michael Turner Homage

My mother in Law, Kay, gave me this nice jewelry box last month which I haven't used as much as I'd like because I don't have much in the way of jewelry. A week ago, I was twiddling my thumbs and decided to do something with the box.

As I mentioned earlier, Michael Turner is a bit of an idol of mine. When I was 13, I started "learning" how to draw using his drawings of Laura Croft and yes, Witchblade and Fathom. He's my favorite comic book artist, with his angular lines, his nearly trade mark eyes and of course his way with women... drawing women, that is. I've especially loved his work in Superman Batman, Supergirl and the Crisis's. Unfortunately, Turner recently died after his long struggle with bone cancer at the unacceptably young age of 37. The comic book world and I will miss him.

So, I decided to paint an Homage to Michael Turner on the jewelry box, which my friends tend to remind me could be an anything box. I used female Super Heroes and Villains from the DC universe. I painted these from Turner's sketches of Wonder Woman, Supergirl, Poison Ivy and Harlequin.

My Homage to Michael Turner. (I took these pictures not long before the box was blown off my table by that freak wind I mentioned earlier, so there are a few bumps and bruises I have to fix.)

She is for sale. (I'll get better pictures once I fix her up.)

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