Greg Kadel Inspired

Painting by Daphne Taranto, Acrylic paint, 38x30 in, 2010.

Hello all! I am an avid reader of the blog Fashion Gone Rogue, a blog which posts "the latest in editorials, ad campaigns, and covers." I was scrolling across this post in my google reader several months ago and was totally gripped by the photoshoot in Numéro #112 of Anna Maria Jagodzinska by Greg Kadel. I decided to paint my favorite shot.


(see above for scale - the mannequin is at about a 5''5' height.)

Here I am with the finished product! And below you can see me painting it, about halfway through.





I went for likeness in this painting but used abstract brushstrokes or color wherever I could - I recently have been doing very realistic portraits, so I wanted to loosen up a little bit with some more abstract painting. For this reason I chose such a large canvas so that it would be physically painstaking to use too much detail. This is the largest painting I have ever done (it's not unmaneagable).
There was a lot of "white" (quote unquote) space since the girl was so pale - I tried to work in colors and texture wherever possible (allover, of course!) and took inspiration from the likes of Monet and Van Gogh who may paint a "white" shirt but really it contains every color of the rainbow.

You can zoom on all these pictures - the textures look nice abstracted from the whole painting.
I started this painting a few months ago and worked on it for one day (the grid + outline drawing took most of my time, but then i worked on it for an additional 3 days this June to complete it. So in total it took me 4 days, plus a couple months of inactivity. I like to work all day or in long stretches of time, like for 5 hours straight, just running through a whole album, Pandora or Grooveshark playlist. I especially like to paint to Of Montreal.
Enjoy! And enjoy those crazy wonderful Viktor + Rolf heels!
xDaphne

Greg Kadel Inspired