For the final project for Intermediate Painting, we were supposed to take a black and white photo from a movie and paint it in Fauvist colors. Here is the photo I chose from “The Way We Were”:
Here it is after the first session:
After the second:
And the final product!
While I was working on it, I just thought it was so fun to be able to choose and paint with such pure colors. I had to come up with my own guidelines and logic within the image. I also love how much the figures turned into characters. I want to do more work like this translating black and white media into colorful paintings during the summer.
Putting It Together...Let's Art 