Colorline Painting

Design: Kenneth Folman

Type: Design, Illustration

This was a fun project, almost without any limitations, rules or guides.

Basically the project was for the sales department that wanted to create a showroom for marine GUI's. For the showroom they wanted some kind of marine inspired mural or painting on one of the walls. Other that that I had free hands. 

To start somewhere, since I am no painter, I decided to reduce the number of colors in the painting, so that it would be composed of big blocks of color. That way the idea was that I could use some sort of overhead projector to map out the blocks of color on the wall, and then do a "paint by numbers" when I had to paint the wall.

I wanted to create a landscape image rather than just have an image of a ship on some large ocean.

One of our clients is Colorline Ferries, which operate in northern Europe, so it was fairly easy to find an image of a large ferry. The image of the landscape I found in an image databank, and it reminds me of a rustic Swedish archipelago shoreline.

I basically started reducing the numbers of colors and shapes in both images and composited them into one image, and then changed the colors where needed. In the end I decided that I wanted some more dramatic skies in the painting, so I found an image with the right skies in an image databank, and added that to the image.

Unfortunately the sales department moved and other projects became more important, so the painting was never realised.