Kevin: Translation, Imitation, Emulation

For this project, I used an image that I found in the RISD picture gallery. It is a piece by Lawrence Jacob called Bar 'n' Grill (1937). I think what initially drew me to this work was all of the activity going on in the image. I thought it captured all of the different conversations, actions, and emotions that are always taking place in a bar.

Using the boxes was both a frustration and a huge help. The frustration came from realizing that I had screwed up the lines of the bar or the size of the figures when they didn't fit into the boxes according to the original. Nevertheless, it was a very effective way of organizing the print and breaking it down. This exercise did a good job of drawing my attention to all of the detail in the picture. I didn't fully appreciate all of the things going on in the bar scene until I tried to draw them myself.

After I scanned the image I tried adding a little bit of color using photoshop. This proved to be more difficult than I thought because some of my pencil lines were incomplete, so the paint bucket kept spilling over into other objects. I gave up on trying to color the entire image.

P.S. I'm now kicking myself because I didn't realize that this assignment was due NEXT Tuesday, not Thursday. [sigh]