Sep 27, 2009

16- Lover "series" circa 1982


Oh I can already tell the amount of fun I'm going to have while describing these "Lover" pieces. I'm being sarcastic and I hope that's not lost with anyone. Even still, this is still a really nice piece, I had started playing with the concept of a transparent cloud floating in front of the regular cloud for the background and in this case that cloud was black. i added very little black to the piece and foreground because if I did the foreground may have gotten too heavy and i wanted the background to be the only heavy part. using a repeating outline as the fill in, red to orange to yellow to white or page white is a really easy and simple way to create a dramatic fill in, I used this technique several times and it always works well the trick as always is to keep the balance with the background. I also added a really heavy, long 3D dropping down to give the piece a sense of monster heaviness. I don't know why i did these things, but here it really worked well. Sometimes the most important thing about creating art is realizing when the piece is done and not over do-ing it, i wrote oops down near the lower right because after nearly completing the piece i got lazy and dropped that line for the 3D at the wrong angle which I knew immediately would ruin the piece, at least to me it would, I was always a stickler about correct dimensions and since the line was there i had to account for it or start redrawing a whole new concept, I chose to fess up instead. i never said i was perfect, just said I try to be!
Once again though, the letters of this particular word flow so nicely, semi leaning left, all upper case, super thick 3D and a black cloud behind it. Still works for me!