Leonland - Leon Barnard
January 16, 2008
Art Project update
It's coming along, but, boy, my art project has turned out to be more work than I imagined. It's always easier in your head...
So, in the last 10 days, I have:
Gone to three different art stores to find about 20 different sheets of colored paper that roughly match the colors in the image. It's not easy to find that many shades of blue...
Bought three different kinds of glue and tested them for: hold strength, ease of application, shine, and whether they warp the paper. This was something that I hadn't thought about before I started, but realized that I should do once I envisioned it more clearly.
Created a higher contrast print-out to serve as a guide. I number-coded the colors to match them to the paper and measured the distances between the layers so that I could lay out the paper correctly on the canvas.
Started cutting out pieces of paper and laying them on a thick paper board that I bought to use as the canvas.
I've never done a project quite like this, so I've spent a lot of time getting to know the materials, which I didn't really think about beforehand. Another surprise was how much engineering has been required. I need to take a lot of measurements to convert the sizes of the paper print-out to the larger, actual size. There's a lot more precision needed than I expected. Also, I realized that I don't have a good workspace to do art. The canvas is 70cm x 70cm, and I need a lot of extra space around that to work, so I've mostly been working on the floor, which is uncomfortable.
Overall, I'm quite pleased with my progress and can see it starting to come together. My biggest concern is getting the surfer kid to look right. The water and sky are relatively simple and pretty resilient to imprecision, but the kid is going to be harder to do.
Posted by Leon on January 16, 2008 12:36 PM