Art Process Behind 'Lotta Wrap Riding Hood' and my wolf painting ideas
Let me walk you through my art process of the 2nd portrait from ‘Don’t Let Them Fool You’ series and how I developed my Wolf Painting ideas. The wolf is the host and guardian of the forest and not a scary villain from the children story…
So, once I had the idea of painting the wold, I made a few rough notes of whatever comes to my mind:
- protect wolves
- stop hunting
- protect the forest
- trash in the forest
- old fridge, sofa etc in the forest
- too much bubble wrap used
- red riding hood
Wolf artwork idea to colour
First step, like always was to create a rough idea of what I wanted to do in my sketch book. From this, it was converted into a Photoshop sketch so I can start playing with colour concepts.
Have some fun with reference photos
Now its time to create some reference photos for the artwork and structure them together. With the concept of trash, I just looked into my recycling bin and created a basket of trash.
For the cloak, I thought bubble wrap would be a great idea (more trash!!!) so grabbed some from the studio (and of course reused ut!) and I convinced my good friend Dyveke to pose!
Last step was to put that altogether on my canvas. You can really see it taking shape now
Glasses or no glasses??
This is where I had a dilemma. Originally it looked like glasses were going to be in, but after the first draft ont he canvas, it didnt work for me, so I decided to change direction and remove them. With the flick of a brush (well, it was a lot more than that), they were gone.
It the last picture, you can see the definition of the eyes coming along nicely.
Adding the final details
This is where I get into the detail, focussing on the texture of the bubble wrap and the fur and of course adding the colour to the basket of trash
And the end result
After all that, this is teh end result, which I am pretty happy about overall!
Lotta Wrap Riding Hood
Acrylics on wood
40cm x 50 cm - 2022
‘Don’t let them fool you’ is an art series presenting a collection of animal portraits in response to rapidly growing need for sustainable actions.
Usually I create my art to make others smile. However there’s been an anxiety growing inside me and I needed to get it out. Nothing new… It’s about the health of our planet. So what if soon there won’t be anything to smile about?
Isn’t nature the basis of everything?
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