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Position:Home>Visual Arts> What background would go well with this pic?Question: What background would go well with this pic!? Another art problem!. I can't seem to find a background that fits with the picture!. I've tried a few ideas, but not getting the right image!.
http://farm4!.static!.flickr!.com/3240/2674!.!.!. If you have any ideas, I'd be really grateful ThanksWww@QuestionHome@Com Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: I LIKE Puppy Zwolle's idea!. I may not be so keen on the colors but I like it!. Especially thinking about the old (Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker) Dr!. Who credits showing the TARDIS (an old British Call box) soaring through spirals!. Okay!. The next paragraph is nagging!. But I know how many times I've needed this so you'd better get it -- however unpleasant you may find it!. I promise to be nice after that: Generally, start your background BEFORE you decide on things like colors!. Got that!? You don't have a picture until you have a background!. At this point it's nothing more than a sheet of sketches which are WAY too detailed!. You could still throw in a regular kitchen, with the fire on the stovetop, but of course that you've done all this other work is going to make it VERY hard to make it work as a composition!. So it's time for an eraser or, if you're doing this on paper, a pen knife and rubber cement!. You could even combine a kitchen background with a spiral (tornado in the kitchen!? We're looking head down into it!?) Anything to bring everyone into one space!. But making a background is always choosing one and working it -- working the overall shapes and working the details!. And doing it in relation to the foreground, so you have to work it early and work the foreground on top of it!. You don't bring it this far and this polished without a background!. Unless you're ready to use an eraser!. Sorry I went on so long!. My bias, of course, is I was brought up on abstraction in the sixties and seventies, so I see no reason a picture should make mere narrative sense -- that is not the same thing at all as every element being in the same picture space and there are way too many "professional" pictures out there where everything isn't in the same picture space WHILE they are part of the same narrative!. It's a pet peeve!. There is, seriously, a lot of nice work here!. But whatever background you choose, the amount of work you are likely to need to make it work is going to be horrendous, and I would be ruthless with what you have!. I hope I was nicer!.Www@QuestionHome@Com A whirl kinda thing!. Baby blue and mauve but very light and blurred!.Www@QuestionHome@Com |
