Hello Friends,

during all my years living at my parents' place there was this reproduction on the dining room wall :



time have past, but ... i still have this litography in my head ... Then i found an anatomical bust from beyond miniatures, i bought it without any particular idea but : my Mom reminded me about this paint by Pierre Yves Trémois ( https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierre-Yves_Trémois )

and suddenly i had a project in mind !

actually i'm in the concept phases and tried some experiments :



this is the bust, Now i want it to have a background ... hopefully representative of Trémois' work ... i want to experiment the 3d effect of painting on transparent layers so here is a very rough draft ... just to see the effect :



here i am now, waiting for a monkey to be delivered sometimes ...

As I said, the background will be way more bigger than the draft shown here ... it was just a test to validate the 3D effect

This is going to be a very long project, this is not just painting a figure, i want to show an artist work and eventually humbly bring it into our century ... the journey is just beginning

I will publish the steps here, i hope you'll comment all along the process as your feedback will be invaluable to me !

What an enterprise! I am definitely following your progress.

Franck, I'm on this one for sure. What an interesting project!

Phil

I tell you what Frank I always check out your threads and always find myself being drawn in.
This is another goody and a real conversation starter. Love what's gone on so far and look forward to more updates
Cheers
Paul

I like this already. Following.

thank you all

Hello Friends,
this is going to be a long project as with the covid situation shippings are... strange LOL but anyway i started working on the background.

the project is taking life

hello my friends

the project is still "on" but i'm still waiting for the other actor to be delivered. i've ordered various monkeys i've found on the internet, from wood statues to toys ...
and i'm slowly thinking too of using the excellent Orangutan bust from Robot rocket miniatures ... i will make a choice when those possibilities will arrive here

today i will start painting the human bust ... let's see where it goes

and finally i've found the title for this piece : 3T ... for Tribute To Tremois

stay tuned for more !

today'S been a good day : sunny and warm outside and i decided to work on my patio

i've put the base work on for the flesh volumes and eyes are more or less done ... and no he doesn't look friendly



base is African Shadow mixed with purple
first volumes : base + basic flesh
first highlight : basic flesh + sunny skintone

eyes : white sands
irises : base of deep blue, then adriatic blue finally a dot of deep blue for the pupil. last : dot of pure white for the light

all refs are Scalecolors acrylics
all paintbrush

Very interesting.......I will control myself to not use too much of my own imagination to see where this is going.....look forward to more progress.

Wayne

thank you wayne and feel free to let your imagination go
this one is a free for all !

hi friends,

continuing on the concept ... some touch ups on the skin but not so much and start on the dark side of humanity



still so much to go but i'm quite happy with the direction it's leading to

thanks Nap

at the moment i don't know, i will see how it turns with the Lighting concept i have in my head for the moment hahahaha

cheers

Is it a monkey or a great ape, of which there are six species: homo sapiens sapiens, gorilla, chimpanzee, baboon, orang utan and gibbon?

Mike

The original painting shows a baboon, unfortunately i didn't find any in this scale so ... i will have to use another species. Not really a problem as this is a Tribute and not a copy of the original piece

back on track with this one,

fortunately i was lucky to find an OrangUtan from Robot Rocket miniatures this last spring during a convention we had in Quebec !
scale is perfect for my project and it even adds another dimension being a mother !

so after priming it with black i started on the faces today, and this is all a challenge as this is not human flesh !

as a base i used African Shadow mixed with black then highlights were : Sandalwood and finally Birch (all mixed up together progressively)

eyes : whitesands, then irises with redbrown and finally black, hint of pure white for the light.

so here i am :