Here I decided to take a different approach and use images to start my paintings off. I found these ones on google images and liked either their composition or colour so I thought I'd work them into wide screen shots.
This is image actually depicts the concept of webbed lights quite well - the concept comes for the idea that that light from street lamps does look a bit like cob web if it is slightly foggy.
So in this painting I try and play with that idea and spread the spider web out from the lights themselves. That way they sort of blend in and look more inconspicuous. This was painted in black and white first and an overlay layer or colour has been add later so that the tone and values are kept.
I've been working on some of these and doing them on one page as is suggested by Feng Zhu in his design tutorials on concept art painting. this way I can use some of the same values and relate some of the shot angles. These tutorials are free and very thorough and can be found on youtube. I will do a post on them next and include some of the videos I've been referencing.
The last one I was able to make up but adopting some of the qualities of the other images and interpreting them into composition of my own - a shot looking up at the lights.
Referencing photos has been good to understand what pallets of colour work together logically and how a whole composition can be define by just two or three set colours. Interesting play time doing this.
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