{"id":1786,"date":"2010-10-04T06:51:03","date_gmt":"2010-10-04T14:51:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1786"},"modified":"2010-10-04T14:28:56","modified_gmt":"2010-10-04T22:28:56","slug":"hive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/?p=1786","title":{"rendered":"Hive"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’ve been trying to have a painting at the Hive Gallery every month now since May. \u00a0In August my painting got bumped because it was too large. \u00a0It resurfaced for the September show, but I don’t think I posted a picture here because I ended up missing the Art Walk. \u00a0Below is a photo:<\/p>\n

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For the October show I was a bit worried. \u00a0I knew the show was going to have a “Hell vs. Monster Mash” theme – and I didn’t know what to do. \u00a0With school back in session I really had limited time to come up with anything – but I did it! \u00a0I tossed around a few different ideas and settled on one. \u00a0Then I had Sam take photos of me (which I will NOT post below) for reference. \u00a0From those reference photos I made this sketch:<\/p>\n

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From there I wanted to take another look at the bone structure to make sure everything was in place… (most of these are lousy cell-phone camera photos, so I apologize about the quality)<\/p>\n

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It was then time to transfer to the little canvas for the first wash (note the positioning of the right hand and left foot in the sketch compared to the wash).<\/p>\n

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Clearly I was going to run into my old nemesis Mr. Background if I didn’t do something… so I brought the piece into photoshop to do a color study:<\/p>\n

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And three weeks later – with little time to spare the final was done. \u00a0This photo is from the Hive’s web site as I did not have time to photograph the piece before delivery.<\/p>\n

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Note the red slippers on the right – that was Sam’s idea and I thought it was a good way to move the eye around the painting. \u00a0Note how there is almost a line going from the top left to bottom right with positive space on one side and negative on the other. \u00a0 By the way – the perspective from this angle is crazy – I had to shoot some photos here at work with a friend beside me to make sure it would make sense to see the shoes and nothing else of Dorothy at that angle.<\/p>\n

At the gallery opening last weekend I was asked if the red shoe girl was a zombie because of the blue “skin.” \u00a0I replied that Dorothy was wearing blue socks in The Wizard of Oz. \u00a0And….she was! \u00a0(see below)<\/p>\n

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This show was notable for me because my piece was only a few feet away from Chet Zar’s piece (again- cell phone camera, sorry…) :<\/p>\n

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I’ve been trying to have a painting at the Hive Gallery every month now since May. \u00a0In August my painting got bumped because it was too large. \u00a0It resurfaced for the September show, but I don’t think I posted a picture here because I ended up missing the Art Walk. \u00a0Below is a photo: For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":99,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/99"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1786"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1789,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1786\/revisions\/1789"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.andrewlorenzlong.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}