New Replete female nude mural

Replete · Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:06 pm

New wall entitled Watch The Colour's Process Across The Splayed Span, painted this weekend in Leeds. My spring has definately sprung:

samuraiwriter · Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:11 pm

You've got my attention, nice work R. Bright, fluid colors, surreal. Do I see a rosebud?

JasonSlc · Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:15 pm

I wish that was in my neighborhood.

earlgreytoast · Mon Mar 21, 2011 2:36 pm

gorgeous work, Replete.

Replete · Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:29 pm

hey thanks guys, glad you like my hallucinogenic scrawlings.

P.S SW is that a euphemism for something you might find in a ladie's garden

samuraiwriter · Mon Mar 21, 2011 3:41 pm

Replete wrote:hey thanks guys, glad you like my hallucinogenic scrawlings.

P.S SW is that a euphemism for something you might find in a ladie's garden

Replete · Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:11 pm

A little bit more ripe flesh:

Flimby · Tue Mar 22, 2011 2:12 pm

love your work

Replete · Tue Mar 22, 2011 4:50 pm

Thanks Flimby, good to know

Replete · Wed Mar 23, 2011 2:09 pm

Close up and personal shot. Had loads of fun getting new tones by blending colours I've never blended before to get those ripe and juicey shades.

Flimby · Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:05 pm

if you dont mind my asking, how many colors and how many cans of spray does it take to do that?
i mean aside from the visual which i love, thats a lot of depth and it looks very large
in my mind i see the execution of a piece like that as skilled as the mind it takes to come up with the image if you see what i mean
like a really good printer like firehouse can take an image to the next level with a really skilled print job
thanks for posting, i could look at that piece for a while

Replete · Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:32 pm

Hi Flimby it took 22 seperate colours with around 30 cans in use including the doubles and I emptied around 8 full cans in the process.

I also used the base emulsion coat of salmon pink as an extra layer to get more variants as well as blending the spraypaints over each other.

It took 3 days at 8 hours a day but half of that was spent talking to passersby and my fellow graffiti writers who were painting in the same location. Also I played around for a long time with the colour combinations until I was happy with the mixes.

I've got some progress shots on my camera I'll dig out so you can see the process from outline to finished piece.

ironjaiden · Wed Mar 23, 2011 5:43 pm

Dude right on! That's a gorgeous piece if I ever saw one! :drool:

earlgreytoast · Wed Mar 23, 2011 6:49 pm

would love to see some process shots! How you get some of those textures is just beyond my comprehension as a brand new sprayer...

Replete · Thu Mar 24, 2011 1:55 pm

Cheers Jaden and EGT. Here's the process shots and I always say a sound foundation in your inital sketched outline makes for a good result: