Painting with light
what
I have always admired most, and what I generally aspire to, are line drawings with or without tone, and that covers pretty much everything else on this site.
But that isn’t what this gallery is all about. Here I am exploring the depiction of surfaces as planes of solid colour that represents the light reflected from them, rather than by colouring between the lines.
I think this little dino-bot demonstrates that quite well.
what
I have always admired most, and what I generally aspire to, are line drawings with or without tone, and that covers pretty much everything else on this site.
But that isn’t what this gallery is all about. Here I am exploring the depiction of surfaces as planes of solid colour that represents the light reflected from them, rather than by colouring between the lines.
I think this little dino-bot demonstrates that quite well.
I call
this technique painting with light, because it’s done by using a spraygun brush using “add” layers over a dark background.
for most of the
pictures on this page, I have painted over line drawings by other artists, and here is the first one of those.
The line drawing is by Greg Dees aka Neon Seed Studios and it’s a beautifully thought out piece of engineering.
You can pause the slideshows below by hovering over with the mouse ponter. Move the pointer away to get them going again.
a souped-up car
The one and only Алексей Любимов very kindly sent me his line drawing of this turbocharged Moskvich for me to play with.
here's a cute
little bot painted over lines by Toche at the Falling Orbs Project
i was making
little boats out of sticks and leaves by a French stream with my daughters when my phone pinged and this crazy line drawing from Dan Sheldon arrived together with his challenge to colour it. Hell yeah!
Now that really stretched me!
Toby Willsmer
usually colours his own work, so when I found this black and white drawing of his on Instagram, I splashed right in an gave it the treament.
Toby was kind enough to say nice things about it.
the ones below aren’t slideshows, just static pictures so they won’t change – however much not-hovering you do with the mouse!
to round off
The last two are a couple of paintings over my own drawings.
This one was inspired by a DTIYS from Craig Imrie.
I was pet-sitting a black cat at the time and thought it would be fun to draw a black cat against a black sky . . .
and finally
this was the first painting I did using this technique.
It’s a picture of a dead grandmother – the header image for a story I wrote.
