Bullitt Painting

Bullitt - sneak peak. (Almost finished...see text below...) I am old enough to remember seeing Steve McQueen in Bullitt on (black and white) TV. Possibly more violent than I should have been allowed to watch at that age, but extremely exciting. I think that movie defined car chases. The Mustang against the black beast from Dodge. For this painting I knew I wanted to create a likeness to that Mustang but somehow pour as much of that painting as possible, while maintaining a likeness. So I guess the aim is a bit of recognizable abstraction (recab). The painting was done in stages with drying required between. The first was the dirt the car was riding on. A pure pour, left to drip off the end. After stage 1, I was happy with the start. Stage 2 was squirting out the outlines of the mustang. I believe I did a quick freehand pencil sketch and then got to it. Stage 3 and 4 were duplicates of 2, since the volume diminished more than I wanted. The plan was to pour into the mold created by the paint outlines. Stage 5 was progressed into, after I was happy with the line volumes. Oh yah, forgot to mention, I knew very early that I wanted to portray speed and one way of doing that was to fade/drip the right hand side of where the car had been… and maybe even the car! (or so I hoped) I sprayed water, at times, onto key point on the painting, to help accelerate the dripping effect. I intended to drip the green in but wasn’t happy with the result so I ended up using a paintbrush and then spraying with water for more drip effect. The 6th stage was adding the wind-stream/wind-tunnel air flow touches.. I knew I wanted light colours and colourful. I wanted again to pour something, so I pre-wet air paths with water and dripped ink, into the paths. I liked the result but not enough to leave it alone. At the risk of wrecking everything, i took pictures of this stage to possibly use as an “iteration” for a print. The next stage was to go darker with the “wind” and add ink induced flows, on top of the water colours, but following the same contours. I liked the result since, I felt the dark focused the light, which focused the car. So only finishing touches remain…I am thinking a bit of refinement in front of the car, possibly narrowing the light areas…still not 100 % sure on this…. more soon.

Painting:Acrylic on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:20 W x 16 H x 0.6 D in

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