This picture was entered in the 2015 Gosford Art Prize, and will be exhibited in the Imperial Centre, Gosford in late October as part of the Overflow Exhibition.
It began as a request from a friend, and was done on A3 Arches paper 300g Smooth. The first step was to look at how the great painters had tackled the Last Supper for reference.
Wanting to reduce framing costs (if deemed necessary), it had to get squeezed into 28cm x 38 cm to suit a 40cm x 50cm frame.
In the photo below you can see that most of the ink work has been done, with snatches of the reference material nearby.
It began as a request from a friend, and was done on A3 Arches paper 300g Smooth. The first step was to look at how the great painters had tackled the Last Supper for reference.
Wanting to reduce framing costs (if deemed necessary), it had to get squeezed into 28cm x 38 cm to suit a 40cm x 50cm frame.
In the photo below you can see that most of the ink work has been done, with snatches of the reference material nearby.
This next photo is a bit blurry, but the ink work is done and the watercolour work is well underway.
In this one the outer Apostles are closer to being finished.
Now the floor is completed.
And the back wall and ceiling.
The side walls and the front of the tablecloth.
Here is the scan of the finished picture, which is quite washed out compared with the photographs.
And here's the final result, after Greg Coates worked his framing expertise on it. It proved to be difficult to get a photo without some stray ambient glare, despite using my camera tripod.
One of the people who visited my exhibition at The Community Gallery last month liked this Last Supper enough to ask for 6 greeting cards to be made - and came back the next day to purchase them.
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