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Xerox-Style Watercoloring

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I have some buddies in my home town who just opened up a recording studio. On my visit home this May, I got to hang out at the studio a bit and the walls are lacking a certain... quantity of wall-art. My homeboy said they had been looking for someone with my painting "skills" (If you can really call them skills, I need art school badly. I'd call it "potential") So I offered to snap some photos and paint him something to hang on the wall. I wanted to try to use my acrylics in a different way this time, and a little birdy told me I can use acrylics like watercolors, so I thought, let's give it a try.

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This is the first snapshot I used for my image.

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Here is the second. Since my camera lacks a wide angle lense, I had to sloppily merge the two images into one. In the finished product some of the angles don't really add up because of it. I know I could have done some actual work in photoshop to make them fit together, but come on. After that, I used a photoshop dealy to turn the image into a xerox-like image and printed it out

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I started by layering about 12 to 15 washes beginning with white, then yellow, then white, then orange, then white, then a layer of green spots, then white, then red, then white, then orange and red drips with the help of spray bottles, then white, then white, then white. I wanted a lot of white, so there would be just the slightest tye-dye effect under the xeroxed look I wanted.

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Next, using a ruler, I drew out my grid to copy the image to my canvas. Thank goodness for grids, right? I'd be a terrible artist without them.

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Here is some detail of the grid sketches, pre-painting.

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This is semi-finished product. I came back and added darker blacks in some areas to add more depth and contrast to the background.

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Here is the finished product. I think it needs to be framed to look better. Oh any you might have noticed, I changed his t-shirt graphic to a batman symbol.

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