More work on this tonight. It is very slow going as the level of detail and the number of layers is a bit daunting. That being said, there is a very important part of this image that I think is going to be the most difficult to work out, and that's the woman seated on the left third. I need to convey a sense of mystery about her, make her be more or less the focal point without letting Harvard hog the show. I'm also trying to do something that doesn't generally work in art and that's make the brightest parts recede into the background. Right now, I think she's a little dark but at least I got her in there to see. Also changed some colors a bit, brought in the trees and part of the fence and gate of the yard. This is easily as nuts as a piece I did a few years ago called "The Red Shoes," which was also along Mass Ave near the Yard.
Or even, the one I did of Marcel and Digby in Tokyo:
Those both took months. Well, I guess so is this one. This is why I don't do landscapes; they take forever.
3 comments:
The red shoes and Tokyo pieces are some of the best you've done, IMO. The landscape elements are almost photographic in their amazing detail. This could be just as amazing. For receding the background could you at some "atmosphere", that tendency for things in the distance to get lighter as they get farther away? I have been planning to use it more in my 3D work to give depth.
It's hard to see but the fence posts are darker and are in front of the buildings, so things are lighter, or will be as you go further back.
That will work, the perspective in this is not as straightforward as a alley or street. This is more complicated and you will make it work, I don't doubt it!
Post a Comment