There is a strange intimacy you create with the places, people and things you find and keep with you over 4,200 kilometers. This project uncovers a Van in a world with a lot to offer, and uses a controlled colour palette, flat colour and textured gradients to create richness in form and storytelling.
Main Prop: the Van
A 3/4 rendering of the Van, and a pastel thumbnail of the Van traversing a B.C. mountain in sunset and rain.
Some inital van sketches, looking at shape and function, 1 of 2.
Inital van sketches, looking at shape and function, 2 of 2.
An preliminary sketch through a rear window, showing early morning light over Castlegar, British Columbia.
Environment Paintings
The following three pastel paintings are based off travels through "Big Sky Country", where disparate breaks on the horizon become incidental wonders. Signage for attractions such as The World's Only Corn Palace or the much-publicized Walldrug, mark every other kilometer along the unending highway.
Black white and colour thumbnails describing a grand view of the Rocky Mountains.
The opened back doors frame the undiscovered morning, with visitors like cows and Amish families, when visiting the Canadian Prairies.
Props from the van
These objects look the way they feel like looking. The exaggerated, cartoon style also reflects the use of each good, which can be found piled somewhere in the Van.
