PAINT BY NUMBER - The Battle

The second Unique Corn Productions Group Exhibition which was entitled: "PAINT BY NUMBER" was up on the walls of Moncton's Galerie Salle Sans Sous during the month of August 2011.

The exhibition featured twelve Artists from the region who each created a work of Art with the theme "Paint By Number".

Initially the concept was that each Artist should get a Paint By Number kit and paint it following the patterns at the core but completing the piece in which ever way they wanted to. I got this idea from looking up an Artist online who had been part of a similar group show in the States, I thought it would be a good Unique Corn Idea.

After speaking with some of the Artists later, I decided to just have the Artists do what ever they wanted under the theme "Paint By Number". The Artists were no longer required to paint an actual Paint By Number kit(although welcomed to) but they had to do something with the "Paint By Number" theme.

The following images are the piece I did for the show.

This is what the original Paint By Number image should have looked like if I had followed the Paint By Number rules:

Chickadees


This is what I did instead:

The Battle
Acrylic on Paint By Number Board
11" x 14"
2011

This was a truly challenging painting! I started by following the numbers and as I went the final image burned into my head, so I changed my path, made the leafs autumn leafs and went to town. The biggest challenges were to avoid certain numbers and others not, to have to paint that cloudy sky around everything and painting those tiny soldier and skeleton faces(no bigger than a nickle).

See pictures of the entire exhibition HERE


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-P-

P.S. The words "Paint By Number" together appear 11 times in this post. Thank you. xox