Richard Jarvis Product Demonstrations
” With this piece I took my inspiration from a floral photo I had previously found through my digital library. My inspiration with this was to produce a vibrant painting that has areas of focus and some areas that are blurred – falling into the background.
Studio XL Canvas
When painting I like to think like a digital illustrator, where the canvas is an option of layers. I started with filling the Studio XL Canvas with a base background. Beginning always with the lighter colours as it’s easier to cover these up.
Gerstaecker Studio Acryl
By mixing the greens and yellows from the Gerstaecker Studio Acryl range together to provide a brighter, glowing green I began roughly painting the majority of the canvas. When combining colours together I like to make sure I am still varying small quantities of each shade, this way the background becomes more than just a flat area of colour. The Gerstaecker Rubber Brush was an excellent tool for this as it effortlessly covered the canvas, providing interesting, scratchy raised marks where the paint builds, so you could see the movement of the paint strokes.
From this I carefully added the darker areas, ensuring there was a colour always mixed with the black. Straight black is far too harsh, if there is a slight tint to the darker areas it will work better with the surrounding colours.
Green/yellow mix
Continuing with the green/yellow mix I started shaping what would be the horizon line, bringing out the flowers and stems of the furthest away plants. These would be out of focus in a normal photo, so were quick and simply shaped. Mixing the paints with different amounts of water and fading them out to produce a blur to the edge of the ‘horizon’. Using green, yellow and white Inks I created a range of drip marks from all different areas on the canvas. Some were made bold, whereas others were produced then wiped away when they were mid-dry. This quick and easy technique meant that I didn’t have to spend time painting each individual flower stem and the natural fall of each drip ensured they didn’t look too mechanical.
I Love Art brushes and Belton Premium Sprays
From this I started painting each individual flower. My main technique for producing the flowers was to mix the colour I wanted, and using the I Love Art brushes produce quick marks, building the layers and changing the pressure/shade of the mark as each stroke was made.
No flower looks right without a stigma (centre) so this was created by making a circular hole in a piece of card and using the Belton Premium Sprays, spraying a lighter colour (similar to the petals) followed by a darker colour, usually black. I always sprayed the black from a distance, with minimal pressure – this way the colour was not 100% covered up.
Acrylic markers
The finer details of the piece were created using the POSCA /Molotow One4all pens. These were layered upon each other ranging in colours and thickness so that depth was given. With a lot of the smaller flowers I first sprayed a simple shape through a stencil. Then I layered the markers over the top.
To finalize this piece I added little symbols/marks that give the painting some identification. You can find these marks in a lot of my illustrations, because they help towards building an identity as an artist. ”
About Richard Jarvis
Richard is an illustrator from Alton, and his work is a collaboration of expressive marks and found imagery that thrives with an interesting simplicity and exciting vibrancy. He is inspired by themes of discovery, science and the natural world. Richard started out by fusing strong influences of street art with his passion for drawing. Through the tools of the Adobe creative suite Richard furthered his illustrative style into a more abstract approach. He then has become ever more infatuated with elements of shape, space, colour and texture. With these in focus Richard uses Photoshop to manipulate found imagery and his colourful paintings to produce fresh contemporary collages.
For more artworks and information about Richard, please use the contact information below:
Email: [email protected]
Website: www.rickyjarvis.com
Facebook: www.facebook.com/rickyillustrates
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