Utopiales Poster, Part 7: The Painting
Submitted by Gurney Journey
During the last week, I’ve been posting a blow-by-blow account of the progress on a single painting, the poster for the Utopiales Festival, which will take place later this year in Nantes, France.
Here’s a video showing how the painting developed from the line drawing to the final image. I put the last strokes on the painting today.
The painting took twelve days in all: two days for thumbnails, two days for the maquette, two more days for the line drawing, and six days for the final oil painting.
Here’s the full composition, called Décollage nocturne (Nighttime Liftoff) showing the Lepidopter taking off during moonlight from the Place Royale.
On the cockpit of the Lepidopter, I added the coat of arms of the city of Nantes. The passenger cabin says “Nantes - Dinotopia Express.”
Was there a transport between Nantes and Dinotopia? Did Jules Verne have something to do with this? Evidently he was there for the liftoff of the Lepidopter. The gentlemen behind him are interviewing a farmer about strange sightings of giant reptiles on a farm in Clisson. Perhaps one day the mystery will be solved….
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More about the music of the Hay Brigade and Dan Gurney’s current travel adventures in France.
Tomorrow Jeanette and I head for Newcastle for the Dinotopia exhibit there.
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