New painting completed: Spray Fan 1
Spray Fan 1 (detail)
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The image posted shows a detail of the surfer performing a hardcore cutback… this was inspired by a pic I saw in September 2008 Surfers Path Magazine of Dan Malloy riding a Bonzer, since reading that article I want to try one of those gizmo’s… a more efficient thruster!! Dating back to the days before the thruster!!
I’n this design I’ve tried to capture the motion of the surfer showing the carved wave and spray fan almost as a vector field. I’ve aimed for lots of motion and energy in the picture, throwing paint at the canvas and where possible using fast directional strokes of the pen and brush.
The colours I’ve chosen are hot and cold, high contrast and of a limited pallet. I was aiming for a simple colour scheme to create a bold high impact image. I wanted to create a design that was a perfect accent colour for a room, and a strong statement of speed and power.
The execution of the image is leaning towards a street art feel, blocks of colour, graf style curves, stencil work, tagging.
The Celtic work is freehand over a concept sketch framework. It forms a single line and depicts a single human Zoomorphic surfer. The following you tube is a rough cut of a time-lapse film I made of the final stages of the painting. Other bits of the film (and eventually a edited and set to music version can be found on my videos page)
Tags: Celtic Art, Celtic Tangle, Cold, Cutback, Hot, Red, Single Line, Surf Art, surfing, Zoomorph