I usually begin a new Obama Unicorn painting by applying an oil wash directly onto the canvas without any sort of acrylic underpainting. The washes themselves become layers of underpainting. This particular technique requires a solid block of time to finish the painting from beginning to end.
The first new 'Barack Obama Nude On A Unicorn' painting is a commission featuring Justin Bieber, Obama, the patron, Penelope the Unicorn, and House. The first wash is painted very roughly, but I usually won't deviate too much from the initial design as the painting progresses. From this point forward its just a matter of refinement.
The second painting is inspired by Ke$ha's Tik Tok.
Thanks to The New Yorker news blog for the include.
Here's a selection of recent posts and references of my paintings which I've discovered in my referrer stats-
http://www.rufusisnodufus.com/post/1100276931/betty-white-with-pies-for-breasts-by-dan-lacey
http://www.facebook.com/regretsy#!/posted.php?id=285066400359&share_id=113381032051626&comments=1#s113381032051626
http://www.facebook.com/regretsy#!/posted.php?id=285066400359&share_id=145950115440662&comments=1#s145950115440662
http://scienceblogs.com/pharyngula/2010/09/ah_but_its_only_a_few_bad_appl.php
http://www.snuson.com/forum/showthread.php?17127-Obama-unicorn-art&s=cd31b905bf1b5bd46b7bf1cd83946e4b&p=328351#post328351
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=83929
http://www.livedash.com/transcript/tosh.0/66/COMEDYP/Monday_September_13_2010/297277/
http://www.therealtsm.com/index.php?topic=44.720
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2590089/posts
http://shinyredthings.tumblr.com/post/1098838159/we-have-got-to-get-this-for-our-house-barack
http://spaceghetto.st/sgd/index.php?q=node/55890
http://mjloveanddreams.jun.pl/login.php?redirect=viewtopic.php&t=211&sid=bcbf1f54a7e4976cae6c5f7f6614ee66
http://www.kozaczek.pl/plotka2.php?idp=14648 (not my drawing)
http://www.crushspot.com/forums/2/3222150/real-talk-cs.html?met_origin=profile_topics
http://www.thetreeofliberty.com/vb/showthread.php?t=117654
http://www.24hourcampfire.com/ubbthreads/ubbthreads.php/topics/4418527/1
http://www.positivelymichael.com/forums/showthread.php?291-Anyone-seen-this
http://airsoftnj.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=37&t=16522&start=1950
http://3lilbirdies.blogspot.com/2010/09/eviction-notice.html
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=13237&Disp=38
http://www.12ozprophet.com/forum/showthread.php?p=7661426
http://www.ponylandcatfights.com/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=2764
http://www.nsrclan.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=8295&start=100
http://forum.crazy-orc.org/index.php?topic=955.1950
http://spaceghetto.st/sgd/index.php?q=node/55890#comments
http://forum.ebaumnation.com/showthread.php?52822-whos-your-smash-bros-character
http://michaeljacksonmyobsession.blogspot.com/2010/09/michael-jackson-al-oleo.html
http://re-marked.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=398:dan-lacey-is-a-national-treasure&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50
http://supersecretclubhouse.blogspot.com/
http://www.ssd-incorporated.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=25&t=3496&start=10&sid=34374ed8169fdfc05501d4a772c2fea2
http://members.iracing.com/jforum/posts/list/25/331009.page
http://therealtimer.com/Author-and-Journalist-Christopher-Hitchens-Diagnosed-With-Throat
http://madsomeness.tumblr.com/post/1139102330/via-www-faithmouse-com
http://www.crushspot.com/forums/1/3225846/everyone-has-their-opinion.html?met_origin=home_topics
http://blogs.ign.com/thetrueodinson/2010/09/11/148340/
http://www.datalounge.com/cgi-bin/iowa/ajax.html#page:showThread,9654123,1
http://wddp.org/index.php?/topic/461-wddp-%E6%9D%80%E6%9D%80%E6%9D%80%E6%9D%80%E6%9D%80%E6%9D%80%E6%9D%80-kill-kill-kill-kill-kill-kill-kill/page__pid__562484__st__302760
http://www.network54.com/Forum/181413/thread/1285076249/last-1285083814/Happy+birthday+Funk!
http://www.ls1.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52590&page=768
http://www.michael-jackson.ugu.pl/forum/viewtopic.php?t=15
http://www.facebook.com/home.php?#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=141500002559820&id=100001180772681
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40145813811
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=40145813811#!/permalink.php?story_fbid=159295924083376&id=510534312
http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1356825794&v=wall&story_fbid=112677162122608
http://alucinada50.blogspot.com/2010/09/uma-arte-de-michael-jackson-gallery-por.html
http://www.plurlife.com/forum/general-discussion/22305-too-many-goonz-raves-now-2.html
http://profetalive.blogspot.com/2010/09/gallery-por-dan-lacey.html
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=5643170&cpp=1
http://forums.hardwarezone.com.sg/showthread.php?p=49169699
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orly_Taitz
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2597700/posts?page=7
http://corpuscallawesome.tumblr.com/post/1045059276/this-belongs-on-all-of-our-walls-from
http://www.fark.com/cgi/comments.pl?IDLink=5654644&startid=63739152
http://www.diary.ru/~opsyana/p104701934.htm?from=last&discuss
http://libertysflame.com/cgi-bin/readart.cgi?ArtNum=13572
http://the10c.proboards.com/index.cgi?board=general&action=display&thread=972&page=197
http://www.facebook.com/nlubofsky/posts/142616999117048
http://twitter.com/HydrationIsKey/status/25854845315
http://twitter.com/baronsarwar/status/25735908552
http://foros.vogue.es/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=90624&start=9025