Crowd scene in colour

2024-07

Crowd scene in colour, 2024 — cartoon by Ray Patrick

Mersh, ROTC, Cartoons

Like this image? I can make something like this for you.

Subject

The crowd picture part-painted, photographed on the desk with masking tape still down the edges. Colour has reached the cart, the lettering and roughly half the heads; the rest are still waiting in line.

Composition

The same tilted rectangle, shot at an angle so the tape and the desk show. The painted and unpainted halves divide the sheet diagonally, which is not composition so much as a record of where the brush had got to.

Palette

Teal, orange and oxblood through the cart and the ground against the fresh skin tones of the painted faces, with hand-lettered sound effects in red and cream.

Handling

Watercolour laid over finished ink in flat areas, working outward from the cart. Edges are taped so the border stays clean.

Medium and support

Watercolour and ink on paper, in progress.

Signature

Not signed; the sheet is unfinished.

From the artist:

Watercolor Wip and Riley in the crowd along w cyberfrog and honoring