![[0401] Larisa Presents, Episode 1](/comics/2012-08-09-0401-larisa-presents-episode-1.png "[0401] Larisa Presents, Episode 1")
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- Caption: Larisa presents…
- Caption: … Three bizarre art styles that no artist can ever “invent” because they first appeared in Sandra and Woo.
- Caption: Instead of putting paint on canvas, put canvas on paint.
- Larisa: More to the left!
- Caption: Make reality match the painting, not the other way round. Work your way up from still life to landscape art to expressionism.
- Caption: Paint one half of the subject on the front of the painting, and the other half on the back.
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Sweet im first
Great art styles
Concerning the third panel, I’ll be fascinated with what she’ll do when she gets to the works of M.C. Escher.
I like how the 2 halves don’t match in the last pannel
episode 1 suggest there will be more of these, where as all I can say is fantastic!
Looks like Larisa is having one of her episodes… hope she gets better soon. >:=)>
The second example has been done in various ways, most commonly in artist’s impressions of things that are going to be constructed. There have also been cases where historic landscapes, and gardens (and landscape gardens) have been restored based on contemporary landscape paintings, bringing it full circle.
As for the third example, it might be better to paint that sort of thing on board or steel, so that it can be rigged up to a motor and spun really fast, allowing admirers to see the whole picture by persistence of vision.
Could this be the fabled Larisa storyline, as foretold by the gods after the “Secrets” strip?
no…..fire?!
Make the last panel a t-shirt!!
One part on each side of the shirt..
I’D BUY IT!
Won’t putting canvas on paint just make the canvas one color?
Almost expected to see, capture the transience of a subject by setting it on fire and attempting to paint it before it burns to ash, but that would probably fall under impressionism.
The paint is used as a canvis you make pics using the art canvisis
I was wondeirng that myself tfeth. It’s been a while since we’ve seen Larisa and her oh-so-important pill box that she risked going into the sewers to get back.
Woo might have some idea but it would have to come from an off panel moment if he read the box or something.
It will interesting to see what that was all about.
Unfortunately that last one has been done before. My grandpa had this little coin trinket that had the front of a horse on one side and the rear on the other. It was on this little pedestal thing which allowed you to flip the coin and on said pedestal had the writing decisions, decisions, decisions.
I must say, I have never thought of any of these.
DAMN! I knew I should’ve coined that canvas on paint style D:
I feel very sorry to disappoint you, Larisa, but I already did number 3 a couple of years ago just out of pure boredom and “curiosity”. 😉
It’s not a very beautiful picture, just an interesting experiment that still lingers in a corner of my atelier/room.
No offense meant! ‘Cause I really really love Sandra and Woo! I just wanted to let you know, okay?
Bye, Seph018 [=
I want to attempt the first one!!! 😀
By the way… the second one has already been done. Often in photography, people will make the scene and landscape to their liking and then take a picture of it.
How creative.
the first one is a real thing, i’ve seen it in an art museum. the second one is rock gardening or other landscaping art form. the third one i’ve never heard of, so it might be new.
The first one has been done, and there was actually a viral video a few years ago that showcased the process. The artist layered the paints one on another in a shallow trough, then used his brush ends and some pieces of paper to drag the surface and arrange it to his satisfaction. After it looked the way he wanted he was able to make several copies by placing the canvas over the top, smoothing it out, then carefully lifting it.
With this strip, there will be 3 less art styles to study for the future generations.
Hmm one person on a large ship being overtaken by a kraken; title of painting = Sparrow’s Reckoning.
I’ve certainly seen worse in galleries.
It’d be interesting to spin the last painting very fast. Preferably after it dries.
We did a school project that was exactly what the third panel was
The others are all original as far as my knowlege about them goes.
@ Deko:
I assume that will be in another lesson, you know, “how to create a “cloud”y day”
I’m almost afraid to ask what Larisa could do with a Wacom tablet. Unconstrained from the physics of the media, she could make Escher seem sane.
So I’m guessing these aren’t going to be colored anymore?
I’m tempted to look for examples of the others, as #3 has heartbreakingly good results.
Monet’s gardens: http://giverny.org/gardens/fcm/visitgb.htm
Olmstead’s parks, including central park: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bow_Bridge_in_Central_Park_NYC_1_-_August_2009_HDR.jpg
If there’s an episode 1… that means there must be an episode two planned!
What will Larisa present next? The suspense is titillating!
@ Hfar:
She’ll have to hire Bruce Scheier to break reality. With his bare hands.
Lol I think somebody has actually put a painting in an art gallery that was simply one solid color and nothing else. I don’t remember if that was just a joke I made about modern art or if it was something I actually heard from my Ceramics teacher (I suck at ceramics by the way), but it would certainly come close to putting the canvas on the paint! And making reality match the painting is nothing new. How do you think games and movies are made? To match the concept and storyboard art usually, if it’s a cartoon or something. Same goes for clay animation. And then there’s painting one half on front and the other on back… I’m not sure if that’s new or already been done! I’m sure it’s been done before, but I don’t remember where.
“first appeared in Sandra and Woo”, huh? As much as I like this comic (and especially today’s strip), I gotta call BS on that. At least for the first two techniques, there’s prior art:
– putting the canvas on paint: e.g. Decalcomania, as used by Max Ernst and other surrealists.
– make reality match the painting: More or less what Salvador Dalí did when he recreated his Mae West portrait as an apartment installation with actual furniture.
</back-seat-driver>
@ Kytan:
Yeah, my grandfather had one of those too. Spent many-an-hour spinning that thing just for fun.
@das-g: No no! We want to bend reality, not break it! After all, a broken reality leaves such a mess.
@ solaceinrage:
or they could just study Sandra and Woo as an artstyle itself and cover these three over the course of studying the series.
looks like Larisa made art the russian way.
I’ve finally read all 401 comics! around 275 today! YAY!
@ GenDeath:
Put them together! Its the right half of the ship. Being attacked by tentacles!
The last painting looks amazing when both parts are put together.
Time for some logic.
I find it funny somebody *probally* arleary invented all of those on his mind.
So tecnically one,or all of those,are just stolen form somebody you don’t know,not invented.
-Logic
The second one is done by movie studios all the time. An artist creates a conceptual painting, then the set builders build a set to match the painting.
@ das-g:
dude…seriously….why ruin my reality huh? CHA! take your logic and historical accuracies and shove it i dident ask for your 411! EVERYTHING I KNOW IS A LIE!!!!!!!! *runs away in corner and cries*
Wolf in Bears Clothing (its the last thing they’d suspect)
I actually kinda like those last two
Very cool and original! Calvin and Hobbes got to the 2nd one before you, though with a map of their yard, it might not count, but I would count it.
No good.
These things can be independently invented and nobody would ever realise.
These could be pre-empting popular art-movements of the future, and yet the artists themselves would still get full credit simply because nobody in the painting industry ever bothered checking THIS strip.
It isn’t enough to do things first… People in general have to KNOW you did it first.
I learnt THAT the hard way.
larissas smile though
Just re reading through the archive and had to laugh as the side advertising panel currently shows and ad for “Russian Fine Art”
that’s actually quite brilliant