More experiments

This painting is using acrylic paints as my media and I wanted to experiment with making nice background for prints I might sell on Etsy inspired by “The Call of the Wild”. I love the bright colours used in this painting, especially the contrast of the cool tones from the blue with the warm tones of the green, yellows and pink. I especially love the look of the mountains, they both look illustrative and three dimensional. To make this more inspired by “The Call of the Wild I could add in wolves or ‘Buck’ the St. Bernard. 

Here are some quick sketches for the design of the animals if I wanted to a Lino print. 

This is a rubber print I did at home using some acrylic paint as the medium and foam paper. I like the curvature in the sky made up of lines however I think to make it look more professional I could do it on Lino with trees in the background and using printing ink instead of acrylic paint. 

Here is another acrylic painting of the setting of “The Call Of the Wild”. I wanted to show that it was Spring but still cold. This isn’t as successful as the previous acrylic painting mainly because it doesn’t look realistic. It could look nicer if I added in trees or even make the green hill more prominent and the mountain further away. 

Similar to the Lino Print I did earlier I wanted to show Buck being called to the wild and to show the urge of him wanting to escape his owner “John Thornton”. Although I like the look of the wind I don’t think it looks very effective with Buck.

As as quick experiment I merged Buck and an acrylic painting together and added a few more details to the painting. This experiment is successful in showing the contrast of Buck and the mountains, however because there’s no tree and Forrest it doesn’t really show the wild that is calling for him.