Hitchcock Vertigo Studies

Seeing how a colour can transform a character throughout a film. I learnt so much from painting these studies of Hitchcock's Vertigo. ❤️💚

Mandarin Lighting Change

Mandarins painted under diffused lighting first, and then the challenge of direct light. And as always, comparing my values.

     

Up Colour Studies

Decided to do some colour studies of the film that made me love colour design for animation.

Sunset Boulevard Colour Script

What a year of learning! 2014 has been amazing with so many assignments and working on my fundamentals, I can not wait to share everything I have learnt!

At the start of this year I studied once again under the guidance of Chris Oatley at the Oatley Academy and kicked the year off with a bang! Focusing on learning everything I could about colour, the class was simply amazing. It opened my eyes on how much you can achieve with a limited palette, support from a mentor and amazing group of very talented students. Chris set the challenge to create a colour script for a black and white film to apply all the principles of the course. I was given the film noir classic, Sunset Boulevard. I had never seen the film before and loved it! It also started my new addiction to watching black and white classics to learn about compositions and clever use of limited values.

This colour script has evolved throughout 2014, returning to the piece again and again, to apply new knowledge and adding more colour keys from my collection of screen caps.

Hope you like my interpretation of the classic. I have included my favourite 4 colour keys. If you would like to see any of the other keys bigger please just post a comment to this post.

If you want to learn anymore info about the Oatley Academy here is a link to Chris's site http://chrisoatley.com/ 

Sunset Boulevard © Paramount Pictures

Revisted the 3 little pigs for CTN

I received some amazing advice from an inspirational artist on how to tackle colour when going from a thumbnail to the final piece. This advice made something click for me, which is exciting and so before CTN I am revisiting some folio pieces. Keep an eye out on this site, a lot more to come.

Sleeping Beauty on a far away planet. The moment when the princess and prince meet for the first time.
Capturing the moment when the prince and princess fall in love, once upon a dream. A simple gesture.