Video: Mosaic drawings: paintings from puzzles and keys by Doug Powell
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Doug Powell, 50, is a massage therapist by profession, but he is not known for skillfully crushing bones. Ten years ago, an American began to make his first mosaic drawings, then he began to create portraits of celebrities, master new materials … Painstaking work takes a lot of time and effort (for example, the shuttle from computer keys took more than a week of non-stop work), but its results are pleasing to the eye.
Experimental artist Doug Powell is celebrating 10 years of creativity this year. Over the years, he gutted more than one box of puzzles to give life to his own drawings - a mosaic of hundreds of pieces. Six years after starting a new business, Doug Powell began working on portraits and began to portray famous people.
Now Doug Powell is mastering new materials for new drawings: mosaics can be assembled not only from puzzles, but also keys from old keyboards. Of course, the keyboard pictures are not so bright, but the restrained color scheme also looks good. “These are my colors,” says the mosaic artist, sorting through the elements for future work.
For 10 years, more than half a million puzzle pieces have passed through the hands of Doug Powell. Many of them had to be cut in order to lay out the small details of the drawing. But the author of mosaic paintings never touched up his works: taboo! Doug Powell's mosaics now and then refer us to earlier works of art. For example, the portrait of Ingrid Bergman is a puzzle version of the work of Andy Warhol.
The usual sizes of puzzle-keyboard canvases are about 1, 2 x 1, 2 meters. The portrait of Ingrid Bergman consists of about 2200 elements, Lady Gaga - 3400, Abraham Lincoln - 4000. The work begins with a black square - the background on which the first bright "brushstrokes" - puzzles appear.
As, probably, any artist, the most difficult thing for Doug Powell is with the eyes: “The eyes are the center of the portrait, so they usually take about 15 hours, while the whole project takes 100-120 hours,” says the mosaic master. Each eye of Lady Gaga consists of 400 puzzles. Impressive, isn't it?
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