Three-One!

This being Scotland, I’ve gone for the tundra supergranulators again.  And just like last time, the figure is in three layers using the Notanizer app in the design.  So the first layer after reserving the white highlights was tundra pink, then tundra blue, then tundra violet.

This time, though, I did something different for the background.  The app was suggesting that there were four different values in the background and I didn’t fancy following its plan with three layers of colour, so instead went for a wet into wet approach.  I used all five tundra colours for this, so that was tundra orange and tundra green as well as the three colours on the figure.  This was partly motivated by green being a football-related colour and orange being the colour of the Dutch national team.  I didn’t attempt to follow the values in the source photo but instead put colours where they looked good, contrasting against the values on adjacent bits of the figure wherever I could.  I sprinkled on a little salt and, because it looked as if I might have the background too dark, gently removed some of the paint with a paper towel.

Once everything had dried and I’d removed all the masking fluid, I tinkered a little in places, attempting to improve things by seeking a likeness, adding some more highlights and trying to make Archie’s fist look more like a fist.

I ended up with something that I wasn’t 100% satisfied with but it grew on me over the next couple of days and I ended up putting it in the shop window.  The best bit about this one (apart from that amazing background) is how the neck of the shirt is too big – that definitely has some Archie Gemmill 1978 vibes to it.