Art-Blog

Stimmung: creative
Musik: D'espairs Ray - Hai to Ame

Okay, so let's get this thing started, shall we?

Some of you might know about my plans to do an art-project as a gift to give to D'espairs Ray when I meet them in one month's time. A book full of art inspired by the guys' newest album: MIRROR

Today I finally started painting. And since quite a few people were interested, I decided to put all of the work in progress into this blog, to share the experience of getting it done.

Okay...the basic facts: One book, 13 artpieces (12 songs plus cover), 1 month time.

 

Remeber, this is the first of 13 pieces, so this is the very beginning.

 

These are the materials I work with: cardboard, oil paint and hard brushes of various sizes.

 

Step I: The base

For the base-coat I used 3 shades of brown: Yellow Ocre, Burnt Sienna and Burnt Umbra. First I covered the whole sheet with hzeavy brushstrokes of Ocre, then I switched to a bigger brush and dotted it first with Sienna and them with Umra to give it the dirty. filthy look that I wanted to get.

 

 

Every artist needs a drug that keeps him going. Here's mine:

Chocolate cappuccino. ^^

 

Step II: Sharpening my pencil and sharpening my mind

 

Now comes a rather tricky part: putting the motif down.

With a sharpened pencil the motif is scetched directly onto the still wet paint.

Note: I didn't go into every detail, it's just a rough scetch of the outlines. The details are addded later on.

 

Step III: Color

 

With a fine brush the outlines are defined with a mixture of Yellow Ocre and Lemon Yellow.

 

The inside of the mirror is then darkened with Burnt Sienne and Umbra, to get the effect of a room mirrored.

The hardest part comes now: adding detail to get the shapes to stand out.

 

By now I started my second cup of cappuccino and found a few wafer-cookies to go along with it:

I took a break to set up this blog and sort my thoughts. I'm quite happy with how things started, let's just hope my muses stay with me and I can keep going like that.