Wednesday, December 10, 2008

How to Paint a Mondrian

Start with one house.

Fixer Upper

Close crop the siding.

Mondrian by Isulbrick

Rotate and color on Photoshop. Sample colors off reproduction of original Mondrian.

Faux Mondrian

The original Mondrian:

 


Thanks to Seth, a Flickr contact, for noting the resemblance between Insulbrick (an old type of siding) and art.

1 comment:

Tod said...

Paula just showed this post to me. An hour or so later I saw this on another blog:

http://www.dezeen.com/2008/12/11/top-towers-by-konigsberger-vannucchi/

Interesting how the same patterns run through art and architecture. It's easy to forget that buildings are just big pieces of sculpture.