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HAIRSPRAY by `Denis-Peterson:iconDenis-Peterson:

Categories Traditional Art > Paintings > Landscapes & Scenery

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Painting Title: HAIRSPRAY
Medium: Acrylics on canvas 38 x 32
Date: 2008


This interesting piece was begun well before my recent trip to London. It has been finished for awhile, I just haven't had time to get a good picture of it, and thought that I may as well just post this rather indistinct one for now. I took the original photo nearly a year ago in NYC, an indication of how much work I have on my plate!

It is one of several pieces in various stages of completion in my latest cityscape series. A few of them will be somewhat disarming, but then again, this one seems to be holding its own rather ok.

The work itself was a difficult piece to develop. The details were practically insurmountable, often balancing brushes with airbrush to achieve a feeling of movement in an otherwise static environment.

All in all, despite a lot of concentration and closeup hard work, I enjoyed doing this one immensely. As the first three seem to be somewhat congealing both aesthetically and thematically, I am looking forward to exhibiting the series as a whole.

Thanks for taking the time to look at it.

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~EuroFoxx Mar 29, 2008, 4:47:37 PM
Oh awesomeness personified!! This makes my day, couldn't tell you why exactly... I'll bet my boots that part of it is because you have Queen Latifa and John Travolta in one of your pieces :dance:
Fantastic as usual, I could spend days just looking at all the details. It's funny how you can make something so ordinary absolutely extraordinary.
Say... you wouldn't happen to have taken pictures somewhere...oh, I don't know... on Broadway, with a Phantom of the Opera poster somewhere in the picture? :paranoid:

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Don't forget who's taking you home, and in whose arms you're gonna be,
So darling, save the last dance for me. ♫
- M. Bublé
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~ja5on Mar 29, 2008, 4:55:09 PM
Yee haw! Looks crazy Denis. I wish I could see it up close. Another superb job.

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=MaskedVengeance Mar 29, 2008, 4:57:38 PM
You really are an incredible artist.

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*keight Mar 29, 2008, 5:41:04 PM
Way cool, Denis. I particularly like the folks just clearing the intersection and the light on the building above Han's Food. To quote ~ja5on, "I wish I could see it up close."

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`Denis-Peterson Mar 29, 2008, 5:57:06 PM
Yes, although virtually all of it was brushed, I did use airbrush to soften edges and shadows as well as to create the illusion of strong lighting in certain areas..
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`Denis-Peterson Mar 29, 2008, 6:08:13 PM
Hey thanks, Foxxy! There were so many little gritty details to replicate, without sacrificing an overall balanced composition. Finding the right colors to give life to some otherwise dreadfully dull areas was key to taking this out of the ordinary and into the hyperreal.

Hmm, I haven't seen Phantom of the Opera billboards, but if I do, I will certainly keep you in mind.
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`Denis-Peterson Mar 29, 2008, 6:13:28 PM
Thanks Jason, you probably will at some point if you make the trip over to London, although this one may well end up showing in NY. I had to pull out all the stops to stabilize it as a single composition, one of the more difficult ones I have tackled recently, with lots of very complex and subtle lighting effects bouncing around and about.
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`Denis-Peterson Mar 29, 2008, 6:13:51 PM
What a lovely thing to say, thank you very much...
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`Denis-Peterson Mar 29, 2008, 6:18:42 PM
Thanks Katherine, each of those figures was a lot of fun to give just enough life and character to add to the reality of the scene. Interesting that you caught that bit of lighting, as it did add another dimension to that side of the piece.

This is one of those pieces where the work up close is so much richer and bolder than anything I could ever capture with my camera. Guess that's why I wasn't in a rush to post it, had to just take a deep breath and do it!
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