Featured Artist Craig Burt has sent in another
breakdown of one of his paintings that provides us with a look into how the
picture came about. Here is some of the article created by Craig:
"Amidala
Armament"
This is another old one - 17 May 2002. I assume that this is
the correct date because there have been some dating problems with my files.
(No, they're not having problems 'picking up' or deciding on the right outfit!)
The file of the finished painting - like the previous installment 'Arena
Screama' - says that the date is May 2000! But on looking at the file dates of
the progressive scans of both paintings I see that the year is 2002, not 2000. I
think this happened due to the pre-installed dates on the PC running out and
re-setting itself to the year 2000. How that resulted in the finished paintings
being dated incorrectly and not the progressive scans, I don't know. Shoot me!
Better still, shoot the old PC.
This painting is basically more free-form
than a lot of them. That is, to do a simple portrait of an Episode III Padmé,
with no real references in mind.
Be sure to read the rest of the article about "Amidala
Armament" in the Painting by
Numbers section. Thanks Craig for another great walkthrough of how this
image came about! Enjoy! |