Set Project: 3D piece proccess - painting

 Today I decided to colour Mr Kite figure.

Before painting straight on the clay, I made sketches with watercolour pencils to verify his clothing. I took the colour palette from the book page that I had made before. 

As you can see in the picture, I made a simple posture overview as he stands. In addition, I considered his face profile. I decided to left blue eyes, firstly, because it reminds me of scooby doo as well. This is a part of my childhood. Moreover, the date of production brings back to the hippie movement. And I realize that characters from the cartoon are wearing complementary colours. This turned me to signalise one of the conceptions regarding that colour palette.

Firstly, I painted the skin in a light pink shade. In one go I painted the top shape and left the space for trousers. I decided to paint his feet as well.

Here, I painted his top in purple.

And definitely, he has no support to stand on his feet.

I had persuaded my imagination regarding his outfit, therefore, the trousers I took from my illustration.

Here, you can see the eyes.

As I mentioned before, I was planning to make a trampoline. I want to transit the drum from the Sgt.Pepper photo session. Therefore, I have checked the colours. The hard combination to select was because Mr Kite has purple and green colours on. I have suggested with the colour wheel how I can compare those tones. I have definitely known that orange or yellow would be matching.

I made extra sketches regarding this. 

As you can see there I put the colour samples and drum shapes.

Also, by the time of painting, I started with yellow strips. In general, I decided to stay with the left down corner version. I noticed, that the strips are too thick and I could not fill the blanks with green and blue.

I changed conception into triangle shapes. Moreover, this pattern does not repeat Mr Kite's trousers. 

Here I captured the last part of the process. The hula hoop I coloured in yellow with red diagonal lines.