WiP_Big Landscape with Director Satyajit Ray (Structure Changed)

kaustavM

This is a large tribute painting. Started with tonal drawing. Here are some sketches used for the development of the concept. Idea was conceived while in the shower 



Some of the poses are now discarded.


inkwash

More or less the final idea in watercolor 

Oil drawing on canvas

KingstonFineArt

I love the gesture sketches

kaustavM

Thanks @KingstonFineArt

Gary_Heath

Great to see you prep. Very professional approach.

kaustavM

Thanks. Now I'm going to do an oil sketch to add or delete things and check the colors shapes etc. After that I'll start this big stuff.

anwesha

so much study for a painting... its bound to be a masterpiece! the studies look great!

jay80

The studies look freak, really looking forward to seeing the completed one!

kaustavM

Thank you again @anwesha and @jay80

GTO

I like the figures in your sketches.

kaustavM

@GTO thanks. But I've scrapped some of  those poses and will implement other ones to instill movement. 

Leo2015

It's all great work my friend! 

kaustavM

Thanks @Leo2015

kaustavM

Ashamed to say that finally found the best thing now and above ones are now reserved for some forthcoming things.
A lot of thinking went behind it in the past few days and searched through my references. I did this mobile phone composition study that satisfies me fully. Today it took me very little time to materialize the vision in the mind. So unfortunately all above are now scrapped including the oil drawing on the main canvas! Apologies for misleading but this is the best. Will do a small oil sketch to finalize everything.

kaustavM

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kaustavM

On these lines. Mobile sketch 

Allie

love them all!

kaustavM

Thank you @Allie I'll now focus on the oil sketch.

Gary_Heath

I can never seem to get the shape of trees right.  How do you do it?

kaustavM

@Gary_Heath Haha. I am obsessed with correct shape and position.  I think I don't feel connected to the objects in a painting if they do not look right or not placed at the right section.

tassieguy

@kaustavM, maybe just get something down on canvas and then show us. Notwithstanding all the sketches, by hand and computer generated, I still don't have a clear idea of what it is that you want to achieve here. 

kaustavM

@tassieguy ohh! This is the first complaint that I received. Ok. I will only show the final image if possible.

Suez

@kaustavM, please continue to share you process posts with us. I appreciate them. They are interesting and helpful.

tassieguy

@kaustavM, it was not a complaint. I'm ok with you posting every little sketch.  I don't criticize you or that. It can help to get input from other artists. But, in the end, the artistic decisions mut be yours and, at some point, you'll have to say, ok, this is what I'm going to paint. Art doesn't happen by consensus. It happens by an artist feeling strongly about a subject, taking risks,  and giving it his/her best shot.

Suez

@tassieguy, I also enjoy other poster’s, (and your very own), process posts either posted for show and tell and/or requests for input.