Jeffrey Brown Copy - Painting

For my second copy I decided to copy a piece of Jeffrey Brown's work as I find his style interesting and especially like how he uses simple line drawings to create an effective piece of work.

In order to replicate his work as close as possible I drew out each panel in pencil by carefully analysing each panel and adding the detail needed.

To make this process easier I split the panels on separate pieces of paper so that I could draw them larger than the original which allowed me to draw 6 panels on one page.

Matching the colours for the copy was difficult and this took several attempts. The first attempt shown above was the most successful attempt in terms of getting an accurate skin colour tone. However due to not remembering the colours used I wasn't able to recreate this colour.

After drawing out each panel and adding detail I then started to use watercolours to create the skin tone. The skin tone was the hardest colour to get due to mixing different colours together to get it as close as the original. When the skin tone was applied I then started to mix other colours together and started to approach the first panel, building and tree.

This shows the second page with the skin tone applied to each panel and that the tree in the third panel has been painted.

I then waited for the skin tone and the panels I had approached to dry so that I didn't smudge any of the panels. After they had dried I started adding additional colours (main colours) such as the hair colour, grass, pavement and the rest of the buildings. Adding these colours to the drawings made them become alive.

This shows the second page of the drawings which again shows that the main colours have been added to the drawing such as the hair colours, buildings, grass and pavement. As well as this extra detail was also added such as the stubble.