Kitchen & Bath Gallery - post#3

[Trier]

3 more doors -
I don't know why this one is always black, can't seem to delete it either. It shows the three doors together.

The Egyptian one was a real struggle all the way around; tried combo of tomb paintings and inscriptions with a Picasso abstract approach = doesn't work well, especially if you don't draft things out and just paint loosely. The cartouches are on separate pieces of paper that I painted and glued on. don'tmind the spelling etc, its late and I don't care.

 

[Artyczar]

Wonderful! For some reason, your work in this format is really doing it for me (the tall format).

 

[trufflecat]

Love that Egyptian one especially

 

[ntl]

NIFTY!

 

[Trier]

Arty, Susan and ntl, Thanks for noticing and the kind comments.

 

[PSA3475]

Did you paint that Egyptian one as one piece and then cut it...or? How did you get it to match up? I like it a lot. Different than your other work. I like that you keep trying new things.

 

[Trier]

Did you paint that Egyptian one as one piece and then cut it...or? How did you get it to match up? I like it a lot. Different than your other work. I like that you keep trying new things.

Thank you for the kind comments
Here is the layout paper I used.

Thanks for the interest.

I was going to take a photo of my final layout but got distracted. In my efforts to answer your question, I luckily found the original center pattern that I used to compose the painting.

I originally planned to make one large painting and cut it as you surmised, but I knew I probably couldn’t bear to cut up an integrated composition if it turned out well;
Besides, there would be a problem for me to cut it into 2 pieces exactly to size.
Furthermore, I could not see how to get a good balance of color areas in each of the pieces separately and balance with each other.

Finally, I used a large sheet of used white wrapping paper to lay out a carefully measured center section that was the same size as the distance between the 2 cupboard doors.
I then clamped 2 pieces of painting paper on the center pattern piece, with their edges leaving a gap between them of the proper size (7 inches).

Then I used a yardstick to lay the main composition lines across all 3 areas at once. As you can probably see, I settled on a “Z” pattern to sort of bind the two together, and did not paint the center wrapping paper area at all except for what got covered from extended brush strokes on the 2 side pieces.

All very time consuming.

Many lessons learned.

Glad to answer any question, or clarify the above.

Regards,
Trier

 

[PSA3475]

Thanks for your thorough answer. It sounds like a lot of trouble, but the way you did it does make perfectly good sense. A better plan than to cut up a single piece.

 

[Artyczar]

Thank you for posting your process here. I love reading about it!

 

[snoball]

I almost missed this because of the similarity of the title! I particularly like the Egyptian ones. I'd love to see another photo of your whole kitchen.