(While painting) Oh my god, this looks so terrible, shit, shit, too late now, damn it.(While mixing) I know exactly what color I want and this is it!.For me, mixing colors is always a three-step process: The pink paint I created was a mix of white, two different reds, and a little bit of gold. The first layer I cut and noted in pencil was the white, and then I cut and painted the pink, avoiding the penciled areas. I had to constantly make inferences like “Yeah ok there’s five little black pixel blobs but they are in a curve, I’ll just cut them all out to make one streak” or “I need to cut that white out of the black area and mark it on the canvas before cutting out the entire black area, because that is indicating where pink will shine through”. Then came the tedious task of cutting out these massive 24″ by 18″ish raw JPGs printed on plain paper. Hot damn! Look how much the white adds to the movement of her hair! It adds so much life. (The white-in-hair layer was printed as black.) I hope you can keep up with my tech talk like “blobbing”. A quick version of my process from what I remember would be posterizing the image into three layers, selecting the grey midtone, and then tweaking the actual area of color by avoiding the white within that region and noting it to be a part of the specific white-in-hair layer, blobbing underneath what will end up being black, ect. But I wanted to try to do a more pop-art-esqe version of her iconic portrait, so I decided to make the midtones in her hair a nice, slightly faded pink.īut just like drastically changing one’s career, deciding to do it and actually figuring that shit out are two very different things. I loved capturing that curl in her hair just with the negative and positive spaces of black and white.
I bought a big ol’ canvas, 24″ by 36″, and decided to see just how far I’d come in two years by redoing one of the coolest stencils I’d done, Lana Del Rey. Those were in a way my “Pixar shorts”, testing the methods before embarking on something broader and grander. I’ve added color very conservatively in the past, like to Poe’s vest or Kilgrave’s tie and scarf. Making the same sort of painting over and over again bores me, which is probably the real reason I don’t have an Etsy shop.Ĭolor has always been the final frontier for me.
I am always trying to teach myself new techniques and improve my skills. I know in my post about Poe Dameron I touted my Lana Del Rey as advanced but by now it’s old news.
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