Villians

This is the first assignment from my digital painting class. We had to choose a villian and illustrate them in Photoshop, Illustrator, or Corel Painter. Since I've never really painted much with any, I chose photoshop. My villian is Andrea Yates. She is a mother who drowned her 5 children in the bathtub. It's a tragic story so if you're too kind hearted don't read on. Otherwise....
Andrea suffered from post pardum depression (depression after having a baby). She tried to commit suicide a ton! and finally was told by her doctor to quit having children. Andrea and her husband new this preacher that told them to live in a bus for awhile (which would not help the depression). I don't know what religion they were a part of, but she got pretty intense about it. Family and friends had said it was scary how tightly she'd clung to each of the preachers words.  Her husband convinced her to have their 5th child which pushed her over the edge. The doctors instructed the husband not to leave Andrea alone with the kids. She was unstable and it was unsafe, but her husband believed that a person in depression just needed a kick in the pants to get out of it. So he started leaving her alone an hour a day. He'd leave an hour before her mom (or his mom...i can't remember) came over to watch her. It was then, one day, that Andrea drowned her five children. She was taught by her preacher that a 'bad mother who's going to hell will bear bad children who will go to hell". Personally, I think Andrea was a victim to her psychosis, but it doesn't change what was done. After she drowned her children she tucked them all into bed.

This painting is done from the point of the view of the bed as Andrea brings in the last child from the bathroom.