When I paint, I like to paint BIG. A majority of the time I will sketch an image from a small photograph by hand... taking time to get the angles and perspectives 'just right' as I did with the Knock Off of the Pottery Barn Train Mural. It's hard to see, but you can see the sketch faintly below in pencil.
{from pencil sketch to finished product}
Block Posters
it's FREE too!
With block posters you take and image of any size, upload it from your computer and choose how many sheets of papers wide you want it blown up to. I used block posters recently for the painting of the Chevy Chevelle {here}. My client had given me 2 small photos of her brother's car to work with. I could have hand sketched it but I found that using block posters I could easily enlarge it to the size I wanted and then transfer it with carbon paper. I simply printed it here at home using just grey scale ink, trimmed the white edges and taped it together to make my 'pattern'.it's FREE too!
I have another project in mind that I will be using Blockposters for... can't wait to share it!
{ps. this is NOT a sponsored post, just wanted to share a cool new tool with some good friends!}
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