The Painting Begins
Painting begins, and Gallagher has some ambitious ideas.
“One thing I wanted to establish with this piece was a sense of depth while keeping Morla’s head as the primary focus point,” he said. “To accomplish this, I had to make sure the shell and neck areas were pushed into the background by minimizing contrast and never making anything darker or brighter than what is on Morla’s face. That said, in making Morla’s head in really high contrast and full of texture it really pops away from the background.”
