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The logistical challenges of painting 18 square feet of octopus.
I was recently commissioned to paint a 6 foot by 3 foot octopus, which is great because I love painting sea creatures. It's a much larger version of an earlier work that I did. There are some unique challenges on something this big, namely acquiring the canvas, surface preparation, and shipping. Here is the original version of the painting, which was 12"x24"
Originally, I was going to buy a huge roll of canvas, cut off what I needed, then ship it to the client in a roll. The downside is that they would have to mount it themselves. My wife suggested I go with 3 smaller (but still very large) canvases. Ultimately, the client liked it so we're going with that. I'm now on day 3 of the project. Day one was buying materials and priming the surface. I had to do this in the garage to avoid making a huge mess in the house. Day 2 was sketching it out and doing the background, which is yellow fading into orange and then red. I've got a little touchup work to do thanks to our dog walking on the wet canvas (which I had to lay on the floor since it won't fit on my art desk) but I think it's going well. The boring parts are done, next comes the fun part: painting the octopus. How it looks right now:
I will update once the finished project is done.