the basic color tones of their living room are orange, red, gray, white...nice clean stuff. They wanted elements of: sexeh lady, native georgia plants, organic lines with clean colors. I was thinking I could gesso in a base layer for the solid color blocks, and leave the background/pattern elements with the native wood texture.
As far as the figure concepts, I wanted an art noveau feel (who wouldn't!) with kudzu (bane 'o the south) as the plant patterning theme.
I was thinking some white hair imitating waterfall or solid vector hair, each with a nice kudzu entanglement and some dark backtones imitating rocks to increase compositional contrast. Inspiration for local flora/fauna via this guy's fantastic photography work: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alan_cressler/page2/
Here's the specific link to the pic that I was using: http://www.flickr.com/photos/alan_cressler/4063759537/
The antlers were due to the deer skull that they've got chillin above the fireplace. Theirs has no antlers, so I thought it amusing to transfer that to the painting's figure.
Not really digging the straight on perspective of the thing right now, hopefully that will change in the next iteration...
...and of course some more figure drawing practicing with white highlights on neutral tones, my new fave thang
...and working on re-tooling an old one that needed touchups
2 comments:
woah, so you're going to paint that on a wooden canvas?! like...with acrylics or oils or tempra or something?! craaaaaazyyyyy! i like the progress so far (the inspiration pic from alan cressler's tripping me out with the eddie-action), and if i'm reading you right, the girl will turn into the artemis-y looking goddess of the hunt being sketched out below? if so, freaking awesome. the goddess sketches are super vibrant -- i imagine from your marvelous colored penciling. i like the top left figure without the inking...but your inking on the other sketches is top notch too. you play with your line weights quite dexterously. and white hi-lites: so good. both here and on your figure sketches. white on neutral-toned paper just pops!
bummed about missing you over thanksgiving, but enjoy your holiday luau! ...swapping roast boar and pineapples for turkey and cranberries doesn't sound too shabby though. did vanessa teach you how to hula yet?
well, my computer's a bit on the fritz; apparently my model macbook pro has issues with nvidia video processors. so, it's off to the ishop to get retooled. my appointment's for later today, so here's hoping it all goes smoothly. technology...*fist shake*
in comics news: umbrella academy vol.2 came out in trade this week...positively delightful. the premise: they've got to travel back in time to stop future versions of themselves from not assassinating jfk.
...and that's not even mentioning gabriel ba's art. so good
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