Y New Year

Initially, after I had drawn it,I was going to paint it as a grid, a checkerboard mosaic with the lines just happening on top.

 The man that never gave up not believing in himself.

Where it went ~ I had to go.
But following the guide lines I had laid out before.

It was originally one of five paintings which went under the label “Y New Year”. Well, the file that I stored the images in came under that title.

This was about 85% digital 
(on a twenty year old art programme) Absolutely no frills.

In a sense, it was a bit like a glass painting in theory, but not practically. Painting on (or behind) glass goes basically back to front – you put those drops of water on the leaves first – covering the finished detail then covering more and more ground – layer by layer until you put the ground down, covering everything.
I had a spell of painting on glass mainly back in the mid 70's, but cant seem to find any photos at the moment.

With this, it was a case of drawing first, with an adapted hair colour applicator - squeezing the lines out very quick. No time to think. 

Then “blocking that in” on top digitally until I couldn’t see any lines any more. The colours were in no way preconceived, I just put them in one by one.

I then fitted the original GIFF drawing back on top ~ which, apart from the lines, was transparent.

At this point, it needed tidying up. The final procedure which took longer than the previous bits combined

Not a bad progress chart, mind the different stages did get shuffled up a bit.

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