Till next time,
Adam
Sunday, June 20, 2010
Hey Guys, Adam here. I know it's been a while since my last post.Here is my latest painting. It kind of comes from the whole "color factory" theme, but this time shows inside the factory. I also tried to add some dimension to it by painting the sides of the canvas and having the color smoke leave through the painted frame. Hope you all like it.
Till next time,
Adam
Till next time,
Adam
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ohmygod adam.
ReplyDelete1. that is so pro of you.
i am still amazed at how you get the confidence to just get a canvas and paint.
2. it looks really pro with the frame and all, the sideview pictures really help demonstrate how 3d a peice this is
3. it looks great. the order is good the colors go well together, its balanced, i could definitely see it hanging up somewhere. and the idea is really cute. with the furnace at the bottom and the color blocks in the middle and exploding through the top. i dunno it totally makes me smile.
like, damn adam. job well done.
another thing is that the more i look at it the more i notice new things. for example the color coming out of the sides of the painting.
how long did this take you?
composition-wise its so great. its not as busy as the last color factory painting you did (which was part of the charm, the busy busy eye-catching everywhere aspect) this one is way more, like crazed within the organized...
also really great how you made the brown gradient of the frame.
ggggrrrreat.
hope you're having fun in alaska you lucky bastard.
Oh man, Adam.
ReplyDeleteWhen I first saw this, I thought it was on a real plank of wood. I know painting the sides is not a totally new idea, but for some reason, I cannot stop thinking that it was totally genius. I mean, it takes your flat/designy style, and mixes it with the 3-D, almost artisan looking style. It makes me want to paint on wood panels or something, and my favorite type of art is the kind that makes me want to make something.
Even close up, the wood grain looks really cool.
I love the detail of the colors coming through the crack in the frame. That makes it even more 3-D and it's so cool, cause it's actually coming from the pipe.
I just thought of something. How do you know how to do perspective like that? I mean, you are playing with perspective like you are so comfortable with it. I couldn't do that, and it's kind of pissing me off.
One thing I always love about your style is your colors. You have a COMPLETELY different comfort zone then I do in colors. It's amazing. I would never dare put pink and yellow in the same space. But it looks so awesome And the face that you did the orange and blue, both pretty saturated, but with the olive, duller green, which makes the orange and blue pop more, and a brighter color would have just been too loud and make the space seem 3 dimensional. I mean, did you think about that while you made it, or does it come naturally?
Thanks Allison and Dakota!
ReplyDeleteYes, it took me a long ass time (like two and a half weeks) to go from start to finish. I tend to be really slow and meticulous with painting, but I'm proud of how this one turned out.
I love machinery, and one of the most fun parts was planning out how the actual factory would work. I got the idea that it would have the color pass through the three phases of matter, starting with the solid color blocks in the middle rectangle, being turned into a liquid between the bottom two, and heating it up to a gas into the pipe.
I was thinking about the perspective for a while before starting it, and I definitely wanted it to mess with the head. I tried to paint it so that if you look at just the top half of each rectangle, it seems like you're looking up, and if you look at the bottom half, it seems like you're looking down.
Also, about the colors, I feel like I probably didn't shy away from using strange combinations of colors because I haven't been trained in color theory or whatever and so I don't really think about it like that. It's like in music, once you learn the scales and chords that go well together, it's harder to come up with mysteriously cool combinations without considering that stuff.
Anyways thanks for the comments. I've been going back through your recent posts and I'm loving them.