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Medium: Oil , Alkyd & Acrylic on Smooth Primed Canvas Board
Size: 21 Inches x 16 Inches Private Collection |
This is a repainting in oil, of one of Clayton Crain's Original Digitally created Ghost Rider art pieces. It was recreated in a technique similar to the traditional Flemish/Venetian glazing technique, whereby multiple, thin, pure colour glaze paint layers are applied over a monotone dead layer or underpainting.
As you may already know, Clayton Crain is an incredible artist who does a lot of work for Marvel, the Ghost Rider series being one of them... To check out his awesome work first hand, here's a link to his website claytoncrain.com . It's important to clarify again that this painting was done for educational purposes only and not for any monetary gain on my part whatsoever.
Mr. Crain on the whole, as I know it, creates most of his comic art digitally (photoshop...) as with his original of this piece. In so doing he creates highly detailed luminous effects in his paintings similar to those achieved in the Venetian or glazing technique used in painting with traditional media. Although painting on screen achieves a luminosity that cannot be surpassed via traditional media due to the lighted screen reverberating throughout the layers, I believe that that becomes irrelevant once printed out and thus an attempt at recreating a semblance at least to the printed version is possible. In so doing, I endeavored to learn a little of Mr. Crain's artistry...
I've written a very detailed wip tutorial of this piece in 4 parts on my Materializing Inspiration blog.
Check them out below!..
Check them out below!..
Repainting Clayton Crain's ' Ghost Rider '' . . .
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A load more wip pics can be seen at the links below!
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The whole process was broken in to 4 main stages (posts) so you could jump to the ones you feel are of most interest to you and for overall ease of access..
Click on the links below to leap in!!....
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