I painted onto the canvas using my digital mockup as a guide – but allowing for changes to happen as I explore and developed around the printed elements.
Initial stages blocking in the main elements – trying to figure out what to paint over and what to leave as is.
In these early stages I spent a lot of time standing back and looking at the painting, in order to best interpret the shapes that had been printed.
I had to buy a new colour to get the glowing orange lava colour that I wanted to make the painting pop – I only had a cool red, so I got this very orange red which works perfectly.
Layers, layers, layers. I spent a lot of time building up the depth of colour in layers – especially in the sky and lava to get a real sense of glow.
Going for an effect like J M W Turner , who created amazing depth and glowing colours in his paintings by building up in many layers
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VCD 453 - Jason Fastier 