Designing Composition
I wanted to design a painting with multiple figures, combining this with my love of music. I found lots of figures from the Internet and drew them in a composition I found interesting.
Composition Traced and Drawing With Paint
After tracing the completed design onto canvas I started painting the figures, my good friend and artist Peter advised me always do this so as not to lose the detail from the drawing.
Drawing Painted
With the tracing redrawn in paint I can now see all the detail and are ready for the painting stage.
Under Painting Background
I started on the painting the background and foreground, meeting sure that none of the detail drawing was over painted.
Under Painting Figures
My next stage in the painting was underpainting loosely the figures and the instruments, adding some dark and light tones.
Jon Painting
Here you can see me using the adapted paintbrushes made by my remap engineer friend Peter.
Started Detail Painting
I’m starting to add detail in the painting. Adding more detail to the faces and hands, composition is now taking shape and I’m pleased with it so far.
Continuing Detail Painting
Continuing with the detail I am now including shadows in the foreground to give the painting more depth. I introduce the overhead light shining down.
Completed Painting
Here is the finished painting, I am happy with the whole exercise and it was something different for me. I hope you like to see the breakdown and the construction of the painting.