Fantastical Paintings Inspired by 19th Century Romanticism Created on Layers of Resin

Pittsburgh's mix media artist Andy Kehoe has created a fictitious forest where vibrant mysticism grew. His paintings have strange creatures, they look like parts of humans, like the landscape of the earth, higher than trees and shining skies, or sometimes even higher than the forest itself.

In order to build each attractive scene, Kehoe paints on layered resin and creates shadows and dimensions between the surreal body and the surrounding environment. He also integrated polymer clay to enhance depth and texture. A fantastic image stimulates imagination and creates an emotional and aesthetic experience for the audience.

Artists' works, including a new exhibition called Fantastical Romanticism at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York until July 23, were inspired by the romantic art movement of the 19th century, emphasizing individuality, emotions and drama. In the official statement, he explained. "I have strange creatures living in my world, like the many themes of romantic paintings, they often dwarf nature around them. Always between the character and the natural environment There is harmony and coexistence, huge creatures themselves may act as wonders of nature, miracles roam the landscape. "

Last year, I started experimenting with digitally processing images to stimulate physical paintings. I began making a beautiful image of aesthetics, photographing classical paintings from the 18th century to the 19th century and filtering them with various Photoshop filters. I found the color and contrast of these old paintings invincible. I started exploring various techniques for machine learning. I understand the application of neural network in "style transfer". This is the process of analyzing two images, making the image recognizable, then applying these qualities to another image to make it "shift style". Color, shape, contrast, and various image features are converted from one image to another. The most common style shifting application is the conversion from Van Gogh's "Starry Night" to any photo.

Most of oil paintings made before the 19th century were superimposed. The first layer is a layer of blank uniform thin paint area called the ground. The ground is constrained by impressive white primers and provides a soft color foundation for building images. Then use rough shadows and gray or neutral green, red or brown to roughly block shapes and objects in the picture. The obtained monochromatic light and dark lump is called the background color. A further definition of solid coating or scum, which is an irregular thin coating of opaque pigment layer giving various patterning effects, is used. At the final stage, a transparent solid layer (called a glaze) is used to give shape brightness, depth, and brightness, and a high gloss texture patch called an impast is used to define highlights.

Artists' works, including a new exhibition called Fantastical Romanticism at Jonathan LeVine Gallery in New York until July 23, were inspired by the romantic art movement of the 19th century, emphasizing individuality, emotions and drama. In an official statement he explains as follows: "I have a strange creature living in my world, like many themes in a romantic picture.The character, the natural environment and There is always harmony and coexistence, huge creatures themselves may become mysteries of nature I am like to walk around the landscape Life, a breathtaking wonder "