Grinding My First Large Painting For Luxury Home & Design Show.

jankasparec (68) in art • 7 years ago

Today I was given the greatest gift an artist can be granted: BREAKTHROUGH

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As I revealed in my yesterday's post, last week I was offered an amazing opportunity. An opportunity of such amplitude that it can indeed upgrade my artist career to the next level. In short, I was offered a spot (and a large one for that matter) at Luxury Home & Design show that will take place in the BC place arena (!!!) on June 21st- June 24th.

The central piece of my booth will be a nature piece that will aim to reveal feeling of "heaven". Lightness, elation, connection to nature, peace, serenity....you got the idea. That painting will be 8x6 feet (244x 183cm) large. That's large enough to get me busy. But that's only the start of course. That central theme will be extended to two side paintings of 4x6 feet each (same height, shorter length), creating a solid "portal" to the dimension of "heaven".

I started the central piece right after my meeting with the organizer last week. Of course I had to stretch the canvas and prime it first. Canvases of these dimensions don't go kicking around art stores. You gotta do your own. And even if they did, they would be shit quality, so I'd do my own anyways. So one full day went just into that- preparation of canvas.

I started painted the day 2 and at around day 4 I hit a major wall of resistance. Fist layer was done, and I started the trees, but it just looked horrible.

Now I am not a beginner so I know I have to go through this, not give up. I know that even the "ugliest" looking painting can turn out to an absolute gem, may you persist and keep the faith.

And so I did.

And today, after hours of grind that led nowhere, I finally broke through.

See the step by step process and judge for yourself\

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This is where my today's breakthrough started..

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Obviously I'm far from done. It's raw around the edges (although that will partially remain so), but I'll definitely work on the light more and work the foreground (grass) way more. And I also want to add few animals.

Stay tuned my friends. Lots of work gonna pump out of me in the next 2 months (minus the 3 weeks I'll be in Asia and Europe).

Thank you for reading and for your support!

Much Love to all!

Peace,

Jan
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kalemandra (74) · 7 years ago (edited)

That's amazing and really big! Gives the illusion of a real forest. Congrats for the exhibition you'll take part.

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jankasparec (68) · 7 years ago

Thank you dear @kalemandra!

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joshuaetim (61) · 7 years ago

When I saw, "Work in Progress", I was like really! Meanwhile, I was about to scream, "this is so beautiful and perfect" not knowing that I have not seen the best yet.

Two things I've learnt from this uncompleted artwork is this;

That great and promising things might not make sense from the beginning, but if we don't give we will sure see the real sense in the end as well as get rewarded for our efforts. It's just like a new road that is under construction, it looks dirty and filthy, but when it's done, the view only brings an ethereal feeling.
That we should not depend on our past successes and accolades, neither should we be complacent of our achievements but strive to be better, to achieve greater feats.

I'm looking forward to the final stage of this art piece @jankasparec, well done, you just got yourself a psycho fan.