After seeing the work of Luke Miller Buchanan and learning about the painting technique he has developed, I was challenged with creating a piece using his methods. I chose to do Reynolda Village, a favorite place of mine in my hometown of Winston-Salem. For this technique, I began with taking panorama pictures, both horizontal and vertical, of places throughout Reynolda Village that I like. Using Luke’s method, I created my own scene of Reynolda Village and took creative liberties of placing things with each other that in real-life are not actually in those locations. Most of Luke’s work focuses on buildings so I wanted to get one of the most recognizable buildings of Reynolda Village in my painting. Also indicative of Luke’s style is creating “visual hick-ups” and fragmenting buildings to give them an abstract feel. This piece was all about the process and starting with very light tints of colors over the whole piece and slowly building on it. This was something I was not used to doing and it took some getting used to. The support used was a piece of wood and adhered the photos with gel medium and created a layer of this on the board as my ground. I was challenged with merging the photos with painting to make it blend and become unified instead of having harsh lines where the photo stopped and the painting began. I found the method of combining photos with painting to be a really fun technique and this project is by far my favorite one I did this semester.
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