SketchCrazed – surreal, lurid, unzipped

SketchCrazed is an opportunity for me to share the very strange drawings I do. The common thread is in the attempt to explore new relationships of form, contrast, and pattern, and to see where they take me.

Ceremony

Turning an ink drawing into a painting

While the original pen and ink drawing was done 20 years ago, I decided to turn it into an acrylic painting recently. It needed to be interpreted in a way that I could see painting it, so I drew a rough sketchy version of it to see how it could work.

From that I scanned it and redrew all the shapes in my vector program (illustrator), interpreting things and adding/editing elements to make it feel right and fit the canvas. Lastly, I created the color palette.

I transfer the image to canvas by using a simple grid I created on top of the vector image. I then drew it with a ruler and pencil on the canvas, just eyeballing it and trying to match the image that way. Mistakes always occur, which I then need to work around. I’ve projected images onto canvas in the past, but I actually prefer this method.

surreal, lurid, unzipped

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Interesting work @mistersomebody. The colorful finish looks great but, I personally prefere the 20 years old B&W version, I like the definition of the subject.
☀ Thank you for sharing.

Thanks @lady-idra Yeah I think many of my drawings work well on their own, and I didn't create them with the intention of doing anything more with them. So they change a lot when reinterpreted.

Love your style of this and your choice of colour palette is great!

Thank you @duanesworld. Appreciate it. Color is always a challenge. This painting seemed to flow pretty easily. I wish they all did!

Colour really? Seem like you have that one down pat. Personally colour is my favourite aspect of make art. I will tweak it to know end. I'm sure you still enjoy the challenge though :)