Black and White Study

This particular project was extremely time consuming. We were asked to take a masterwork from art history and re-paint it in a black and white study. The objective was to see what effect color has on the original piece and also to study the compositional structure. In this piece, there's a strong sense of diagonality and use of triangles.

You can see that it transfers well in black and white. I think value, more than color, is what really makes the image stand out and gives the figures a multidimensional feel.

This masterwork was originally done by Leon Kelly, an american surrealist.

Here is the process from start to finish:

My final design

Original painting
"Radioactive Human Residue"
1961