Artistic Painting (acrylic on stretched linen 58"X26")

Artist: John Potter
Painting of a Siren of the Sea
This painting fits into a series of paintings exploring the use of custom linear halftones (which is the fancy title for the dark lines in this painting) I have been working on.

This painting started as a concept for a mural. The concept was rejected without explanation but I liked it enough to want to expand upon the initial work I had done. I kept the limited palette from the original concept and there was a portrait of similar scale in the original but most everything else changed. No longer limited by the practical matters of painting on location and at a huge scale I expanded on the concept.

I wanted to create a color pattern that morphed into another, more linear pattern that would define a drawing. I painted the value patterns of the blue hexagon pattern as if they were lit from the left. This can cause the additional sensation of volume. I wanted to create an image that is multiple images and your mind or view switches from one to the other, at once seeing a pattern, then a portrait, then 3D shapes etc. I tried to scale the linear pattern as large as I could without loosing the image of the portrait so that the pattern held equal or similar importance.

I spent a lot of time drawing and trying concepts and making adjustments on my computer for this painting. The actual painting process took about two weeks with most of that being drying time before a next step. Work started in early March so the whole process took about a month and a half but it was intermittent.
The painting is acrylic.

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PAINTINGS:

Siren of the sea
Contemporary Portrait of Buddha
Dog Park Painting
figure painting
Shipping Container Mural for a dog park
Portrait in  lines
Dog Park Illustration
Tongue Illustration
Robot in  lines
Bubblegum Machine Painting
Andy Warhol Portrait
Shipping Container Mural for a dog park
Iguana Wall Art
Alcove mural
bee mural
color pattern mural
Dancing Fox Mural
Abstract Pattern Mural
Zappa portrait
Doctor(mixed media)
Doctor(mixed media)
Skateboard and Scooter
Book Cover Illustration
Portrait in  oils
Astronaut illustration
sushi illustration
Portrait
Cave diver painting
Conquistadors illustration
Diver Illustration
Hello(Oils)
Einstein

PORTRAITS:

Siren of the sea
Contemporary Portrait of Buddha
Portrait in  lines
Book Cover Illustration
Art Nouveau Portrait
Cigar Aficionado Illustration
Andy Warhol Portrait
Cover Art
Zappa portrait
Shipping Container Mural for a dog park
Dog Park Illustration
Dog Park Illustration
Shipping Container Mural for a dog park
Iguana Wall Art
native americans painting
Doctor(mixed media)
Hello(Oils)

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