Dancing King
I have always wanted to do a painting of corn stalks at the end of their growth year - don't know why. I looked at this painting as a way to get a very complex and complicated painting without using a factory - or even, without using perspective. Painting this was a hard as painting water.
I think I have ADD, really. I cannot find where I am in this kind of image without using pointers. I cut little triangular pieces of card stock and used them to point at a spot on the original photo and another on the the surface of the painting - and I still got lost. I use a grid with diagonals to lay out the drawing of the image but soon after a section has two or three leaves, I had to put paint on it or I get lost again. So, that is how I got this image onto the board - draw, paint, draw, paint, until the surface is full of image. Next comes an attempt at clarity. Areas are identified by how bad they look and I paint on them until they look better. That is how it goes until the whole surface is again complete. Then the painting really begins. I find places that need to be brought up to the standards of the "better" sections of the painting and change them until I can move on to another section. It must be kept in mind that color, texture and lighting must be kept under control or one part might look very different than another part - that would ruin the illusion.
I cannot say that I was as successful in accomplishing my goals as I would have liked but I do feel that I gave it my best shot. I got the idea for the title from two things. One idea came from a documentary I saw a couple of years ago called King Corn (2007) made by Aaron Woolf (a humorous and revealing story of big industrial farmers and little farmers and corn and farm subsidies). The other is the fact that these stalks were being blown by a very strong wind - my good fortune. That fact gives the painting all of the movement it would not have had it been a calm day
Medium: Acrylic on MDF (1/4" hardboard)
Not Yet Framed
Size: 24" x 36"
Price: $3,200.00 (not including applicable sales tax and shipping)
I have always wanted to do a painting of corn stalks at the end of their growth year - don't know why. I looked at this painting as a way to get a very complex and complicated painting without using a factory - or even, without using perspective. Painting this was a hard as painting water.
I think I have ADD, really. I cannot find where I am in this kind of image without using pointers. I cut little triangular pieces of card stock and used them to point at a spot on the original photo and another on the the surface of the painting - and I still got lost. I use a grid with diagonals to lay out the drawing of the image but soon after a section has two or three leaves, I had to put paint on it or I get lost again. So, that is how I got this image onto the board - draw, paint, draw, paint, until the surface is full of image. Next comes an attempt at clarity. Areas are identified by how bad they look and I paint on them until they look better. That is how it goes until the whole surface is again complete. Then the painting really begins. I find places that need to be brought up to the standards of the "better" sections of the painting and change them until I can move on to another section. It must be kept in mind that color, texture and lighting must be kept under control or one part might look very different than another part - that would ruin the illusion.
I cannot say that I was as successful in accomplishing my goals as I would have liked but I do feel that I gave it my best shot. I got the idea for the title from two things. One idea came from a documentary I saw a couple of years ago called King Corn (2007) made by Aaron Woolf (a humorous and revealing story of big industrial farmers and little farmers and corn and farm subsidies). The other is the fact that these stalks were being blown by a very strong wind - my good fortune. That fact gives the painting all of the movement it would not have had it been a calm day
Medium: Acrylic on MDF (1/4" hardboard)
Not Yet Framed
Size: 24" x 36"
Price: $3,200.00 (not including applicable sales tax and shipping)
