Hey You Guys Painting

I love movies. It's not the action or excitement that thrills me (although it often helps), but the way an imaginary world is brought to life. A pure artistic vision made real. In order to achieve this a team of people needs to share a purpose; a director, writers, cinematographers, actors, prop makers, set builders, editors... all working together under a common purpose. My paintings are a small scale celebration of this process, recreating the mood and feeling of films that have particularly inspired me. I make the props, I build a set, I compose and frame the shot before rendering a classical still life in paint. The Goonies is a movie that I have loved since I was a child. It filled me with hope that every day at the beach would finish with me finding long lost pirate treasure. Because the movie holds such a special place in my heart, I found this piece particularly difficult to compose, discarding tens of compositions before finally settling on one that I felt did my memories justice. The props in this piece are also very special to me as I have desired them for close to thirty years. The key I carefully sculpted in clay before cold casting it in copper. The scales I built from workshop scraps that I sprayed gold, using recent auction photos of the genuine prop as reference, and the pirate skull was modified from a medical casting, drilling out the teeth to match the skull in the movie. These works are created using a traditional oil painting style. Working on canvas board: a grisaille underpainting is completed before coloured oil paints are applied. This traditional process compliments the classical nature of still life works and produces an interesting juxtaposition between the modern content and traditional composition present in my paintings.

Painting:Oil on Canvas

Original:One-of-a-kind Artwork

Size:29.9 W x 20.1 H x 0.2 D in

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