In order to render the image to to a degree I'm happy with, I want to create a thumbnail and create the painting using a transferal grid method, sectioning the thumbnail up into squares with corresponding letter and number co-ordinates. As I haven't created a large scale figurative painting with a surrealist style and an in depth narrative before, I feel as though working with a proper gridded thumbnail reference (rather than just my sketchbook draft) will help me feel less out my depth and make the piece more approachable and not so intimidating and daunting.
Much like the painting aspect of the piece, I've not ever created an in-depth thumbnail image for a painting before, and so I am very out my depth in this entire creative process. However, I'm really enjoying the fact that pursuing this will push me out of my comfort zone and teach me new lessons in regards to my approach to my practise and the materials and methods I'm using.
It seemed logical to me to begin by collecting jpegs and images of the features within the draft in my sketchbook of 'Gehenna'. For example, there is a reference to 'Anubis' in the painting draft, so I began collecting images of Anubis masks, Dobermann dogs and Anubis statues and paraphernalia to potentially incorporate into my thumbnail. I repeated this process with all the other elements within the draft such as the alcohol bottles, food wrappers, dying plants, furniture etc and narrowed down my findings to the best options for the image. Next, I needed to assemble the separate elements along with my red nude reference photos to create a working thumbnail that closely mirrored my initial sketch.
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