Sam (crazy candle person) ✦ on Warpcast

Content pfp

0 reply

0 recast

0 reaction

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦ pfp

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦

While @matallo.eth was away for a month in Vancouver, I surprised him with a large painting I made “Composition Carlos” for when he came back. I took inspiration from his favourite artist, Kandinsky, and Miro. Process below 👇

30 replies

10 recasts

99 reactions

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦ pfp

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦

I first started by watching YouTube videos and searching on Google to understand how Kandinsky paints. This helped me understand techniques, shapes, and the different eras of his painting. It was important for me to narrow down the specific period I want to reference, which was his Bauhaus era.

0 reply

0 recast

5 reactions

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦ pfp

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦

Second, I went supply shopping. I went to an office supplies store to buy a meter stick, and Deserres for the large canvas and relatively muted tones that matched Kandinsky and Carlos’ apartment. Afterwards, I did a sketch on my iPad. I followed the golden ratio for the sketch.

0 reply

0 recast

3 reactions

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦ pfp

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦

Third, I read the book “Concerning The Spiritual In Art” by Kandinsky, to understand his values around colour. I disagreed with some parts, but the TLDR of it was to make the conceptual inconceptual. So I decided to make my love for him, inconceptual on canvas. To make something that has never existed before.

0 reply

0 recast

3 reactions

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦ pfp

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦

Fourth involved sketching it on the canvas using the meter stick and different sized pots and pan lids to make perfect circles. I also used a foam roller. Not shown is the base layer of a muted yellow and titanium white, which I had to thickly put on and then scrape off with an expired credit card.

0 reply

0 recast

2 reactions

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦ pfp

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦

Fifth, I started putting down the colours. I started from the darkest to the lightest, and used painters tape to get perfect lines. I had to freehand perfect circles.

0 reply

0 recast

2 reactions

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦ pfp

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦

Sixth, I completed all of the shapes. At this point it was looking cool, and extremely structured. Very corporate but kind of not? I debated to myself whether I should leave it this way or continue with the dark outlines that Kandinsky outlined. I tried a few black lines and decided I liked it.

0 reply

0 recast

2 reactions

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦ pfp

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦

Seventh, I used colours that Kandinsky almost never used, which was pink. You have to make it your own. I went from a highly structured painting to something that *looked* unstructured, but upon closer inspection you’ll see a mix of organic and inorganic lines. All in all, it took around 14-16 hours of active work.

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦ pfp

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦

Eighth, I purposely did not varnish the painting, which I stole from Rothko. The painting will deteriorate without the varnish over time. I believe that all things have life and must die at some point. This painting will eventually crumble into dust and never be experienced again 😇

1 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦ pfp

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦

Ninth was naming the painting. Kandinsky named many of his paintings “Composition 1, 2,” etc. so I named it the same thing, plus his name for “Composition Carlos”. Because it’s funny and cheeky to have a piece of artwork named after yourself 🤣

1 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦ pfp

Sam (crazy candle person) ✦

P.S. The golden ratio in art creates a balanced relationship that the brain likes. It’s about obtaining an exact ratio between the different parts of a work, an image, or an object. “Composition Carlos” follows the golden ratio, as precisely as I could 😇

0 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

tldr (tim reilly) pfp

tldr (tim reilly)

I genuinely enjoy this composition! And I’m pretty picky. Your talent amazes me here. But even more, I love being reminded how being in love is such a powerful source of creativity and motion. Way to go @matallo.eth — you’re what they call a “Muse” my friend!

2 replies

0 recast

1 reaction

chandresh 🪴 pfp

this is brilliance, and the pillows go with it too 🤯

2 replies

0 recast

1 reaction

kugusha 🦋 pfp

absolutely love the painting! clearly referenced yet it’s your own 🙏 Inspired by the process and the amount of research you’ve done

1 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

erica pfp

Love seeing such a detailed and involved process, especially the inspiration and research phase! This is so sick woww

1 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

adrienne pfp

I am in awe, you are so damn impressive. Dying to know what @matallo.eth thought and how he reacted to this surprise

2 replies

0 recast

2 reactions

dylan pfp

Sam that’s so sick(and impressive)!!!

1 reply

0 recast

2 reactions

Colin Johnson 💭 pfp

Colin Johnson 💭

This is the most romantic thing I’ve seen someone that I know do, maybe ever, definitely kn farcaster. Also it’s just dope. Matches the pillows. So so good.

1 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

Ben - [C/x] pfp

This is awesome, Sam!

1 reply

0 recast

1 reaction

pugson pfp

wow sam this is incredible 😍

1 reply

0 recast

1 reaction