Back to the digital work again now. Here is an image I wanted to have a bit of fun with - a girl in a cat mask. No real reason, other than I am enjoying the whole 60's thing of iconography, music, colour, fun.....and the oil paintings take so long I wanted to do something much quicker. Perhaps because the paintings take so long I wouldn't paint anything so simple as this (and maybe I should.....maybe I will!!!)....they (the oil paintings) seem to require more reverence and substance from me because I know I will be at them for weeks or months, and, Catch 22, because of that they take even longer again!! Sooooooooo, yes, in between times, I like to play with a drawing, establish it quickly and blast a lot of colour at it in photoshop. I was just explaining to an editor friend that this method I use here has evolved from a way to make large images at an economically quick pace for children's books into something more refined and punchy. I kept seeing the potential of the style when I was in close up to a detail in a busy picture (perhaps see my posts from april 10th and june 26th 2010 for what I mean), but the pictures as a whole often let me down because looking at the whole thing meant the niceties of the details got lost when zoomed out of. So, now I am making all of the drawings like a detail. It brings me back nicely to thinking about pop art which has always been a favourite of mine - and beyond the gallery pop art of say Lichtenstein or Warhol, to the art which inspired them in the first place, comic books and commercial art in the 50's and 60's.
So, here is my picture, called The Cat's Whiskers:
But, even when I have created an image that I think is only a 'detail' of something larger, I still can't stop myself zooming in to see different crops of the same, revealing whole new pictures. I suppose we all do it all the time now our photos are on our computers rather than as A6 prints on photo paper. Still, I do like the process, and I do like the idea of these images being very big when printed out. I said before that my 'Little Queenie' image looked better the bigger the print, and I went as far as A1 with that (so far!!), well - I think this one might have to be A0 at some point, will just have to find a wall somewhere big enough to display it!!
Here are some crops:
Well, I hope you like the picture. Please leave a comment and tell me which crop you prefer!
TTFN :-)
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