In this post I'll be showing the stages of completion from start to finish. This shows another technique I use when starting off these kind of crowded scenes. With This Rush Hour I started with an abstract acrylic opaque wash, I really wanted the finished painting to have a lot of density and that's why I used this technique.
Rush Hour II, Oil on Canvas, 80 x 120cm, 2007
I exhibited this painting at the Patching's Art Exhibition organised by The Artist Magazine in 2008. It won the Pro-Arte Award- if I can remember, that won me Paint Brushes worth £250, some of which I am still using till today.
Stage 1
Stage 2
Stage 3
Stage 4
Final Stage
SPECIAL QUOTE
"Here are some other ways I try to spark my imagination:
=Look through my reference files, sketchbooks, and photographs
=Take a subject I like and paint a series of it
=paint some fresh flowers
=set up a still life
=buy a new brush, colour, or paper
=read a book or magazine on watercolours
=read about the masters
=look at some of my old paintings
=go to a workshop
=mat some of my work
=go to a museum"
-Angela D'Aleo on the Purpose of Painting
Nice to see your process. Are you referring to your sketchbooks for the various figures or are you just winging it? A little of both?
ReplyDeleteThanks Steve, everyone and everything was painted from a snap-shot apart from 2 figures, I had to think those ones up, as I didn't like the ones in the reference I used. They are the woman in the front and the black girl in green.
ReplyDeleteThanks for the insight.
ReplyDeleteYou are welcome, Steve!
ReplyDelete@Steve-Looking again, it was the black girl in black standing beside the one in green that I had to think up.
ReplyDeleteI remember this one well. What a way you have come since then!
ReplyDeleteThanks Diana, it has been a long journey but worth it all! God has been really good!
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