'Happy Days' started life as a very rough sketch sometime during the Summer months. As with all the latest Impossimals it began with a oil sketch to make sure the poses, colours and general composition worked. I primed the board with a nice pink as the background was going to be quite plain so as not to detract from the image.
It took a bit of playing around but eventually I was happy with the result. It looks simple in concept but to get it to this stage required nineteen different colours to give it increased complexity.
You can see I chart the colour usage as I move along, this allows me to gradually balance the palette and helps when I work on the main oil painting.
Using my oil sketch as a guide I transfer the image to a larger board for the final piece adjusting the pose as necessary which in this case meant dropping the ears slightly and resizing the eyes.
Normally I would concentrate on the background but as its one colour I went straight ahead and painted in the Impossimal base colour and the props.
Once dry in went the all important stripe colours along with a base coat of white to define the eyes.
Once the eyes to in the whole piece starts to come alive. The stripes have only had two layers added at this stage and need a lot more work to bring out the colours.
The background goes in and the whole thing is allowed to dry for a few days before it returns to the studio for a week of glazing.
By the end the colours have been lifted, the background darkened and little blobs of light added to the lolly and eyes finally completing 'Happy Days', a recreation of a perfect Summer with someone special in your life.
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