black and white painting (with wip pictures)
Well, after the overwhelming response you guys gave my euro lineup painting, I saw that a few people wanted to see some more of my work.
So here is another massive project of mine, this one is another old college project.
The theme for the project was natural forms, and this was my final piece. I didnt just want to create a normal looking flower painting like so many others in my college group did, and so I came up with the idea of infusing mechanical elements into natural forms.
This piece of work basically took over my life for over 4 months, with just the planning and initial ideas taking a month and a half before I came up with something usable.
It's not quite on the same scale as the euro lineup, but it is still fairly large and completely packed with intense details.
I do believe that it's 2m x 0.3m, so still not a small painting
This was another piece that my college wanted to keep, and it spent the majority of its life in the headmaster/principals office. But unlike the euro piece, i eventually managed to get it back a year and a half after its completion.
It did however spend a small amount of time exhibited in the Leicester City Gallery, where it received quite a lot of praise from visitors (which made me happy).
Anyway, here is how it was done
The first stage, as mentioned before was planning it all out. This meant thinking of what the hell I was going to put on there, so a lot of finding random pictures off the internet. The next stage was to photoshop these pictures so they were purely black and white, with no gray tones. Easy solution, desaturate then take the contrast to +96.
As i wanted the mechanical elements to blend in with the natural ones, photoshop came in handy yet again to blend things together nicely.
The trouble was, the project brief said the final piece must be a painting and so I came up with the solution of projecting my photoshop creation onto the canvas.
Now, back then the college didnt have any digital projectors in the art department, so I had to use an old-school overhead projector for it, which meant printing out all 2 metres of it and then transferring it onto acetate so it could be projected.
Basic outlines were drawn at this stage.
This was the fairly unsafe setup I made myself in order to be able to draw outlines
And here's the wip pictures.
I then had to turn the canvas upside down because of the dodgy projector not being in focus when it got over the halfway point.
Once all the outlining was done, the next step was painting!
Here it is in the Gallery
Oh and if you can see that metal bird just in the foreground of that shot, thats mine also
Anyway, this is what the whole thread has been leading upto, the final piece.
It took me half an hour to scan it and put it all together, and i apologise for the quality of how it has scanned. In person it is literally just black and white, no grays or shadowy bits
Click for the Super High-res http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/2918/blackandwhitepiece.jpg
There is so much in there that most people will never see, and even though i painted it I enjoy having a good look to see what hidden things i can find (there are huge amounts of animals and other things hidden amongst it)
Well, if youve got this far, thankyou for taking the time to look at it as this post has turned into a bit of an essay
I hope you guys like it
So here is another massive project of mine, this one is another old college project.
The theme for the project was natural forms, and this was my final piece. I didnt just want to create a normal looking flower painting like so many others in my college group did, and so I came up with the idea of infusing mechanical elements into natural forms.
This piece of work basically took over my life for over 4 months, with just the planning and initial ideas taking a month and a half before I came up with something usable.
It's not quite on the same scale as the euro lineup, but it is still fairly large and completely packed with intense details.
I do believe that it's 2m x 0.3m, so still not a small painting
This was another piece that my college wanted to keep, and it spent the majority of its life in the headmaster/principals office. But unlike the euro piece, i eventually managed to get it back a year and a half after its completion.
It did however spend a small amount of time exhibited in the Leicester City Gallery, where it received quite a lot of praise from visitors (which made me happy).
Anyway, here is how it was done
The first stage, as mentioned before was planning it all out. This meant thinking of what the hell I was going to put on there, so a lot of finding random pictures off the internet. The next stage was to photoshop these pictures so they were purely black and white, with no gray tones. Easy solution, desaturate then take the contrast to +96.
As i wanted the mechanical elements to blend in with the natural ones, photoshop came in handy yet again to blend things together nicely.
The trouble was, the project brief said the final piece must be a painting and so I came up with the solution of projecting my photoshop creation onto the canvas.
Now, back then the college didnt have any digital projectors in the art department, so I had to use an old-school overhead projector for it, which meant printing out all 2 metres of it and then transferring it onto acetate so it could be projected.
Basic outlines were drawn at this stage.
This was the fairly unsafe setup I made myself in order to be able to draw outlines
And here's the wip pictures.
I then had to turn the canvas upside down because of the dodgy projector not being in focus when it got over the halfway point.
Once all the outlining was done, the next step was painting!
Here it is in the Gallery
Oh and if you can see that metal bird just in the foreground of that shot, thats mine also
Anyway, this is what the whole thread has been leading upto, the final piece.
It took me half an hour to scan it and put it all together, and i apologise for the quality of how it has scanned. In person it is literally just black and white, no grays or shadowy bits
Click for the Super High-res
http://img571.imageshack.us/img571/2918/blackandwhitepiece.jpgThere is so much in there that most people will never see, and even though i painted it I enjoy having a good look to see what hidden things i can find (there are huge amounts of animals and other things hidden amongst it)
Well, if youve got this far, thankyou for taking the time to look at it as this post has turned into a bit of an essay
I hope you guys like it
)