Holly Meade Illustration Year 2: 2060 Week Two: Food

A FUN THING HAPPENED!

Our piece made it into the Metro good news feed! Somebody must have passed on their positive affirmation, the piece WORKED. IT WORKED.

So this week I moved to work with Lily on Food. We spoke about what we're interested in - she had the idea of making a 'water cafe'. In the future people will look for luxury in simple things - the same way hipsters ruined cereal. Maybe water will be scarce too, but we were looking more at ideas of luxury and food rather than environmental issues.

We had a brainstorming session with tea and cake!

Decided that the advertising for our cafe should be slightly religious looking - like mannerist paintings. But with too many BIG smiles and people looking too damn happy for it to be real happiness:

We came up with this sketch (both drawing on the same page):

And Lily ~digitised~ it!

We couldn't decide on colours so we tried a few different combinations:

This is what we ended up with:

We liked the acidic kind of pop colours, like an advert for a very sweet alcoholic drink that's kind of aimed at underage drinkers but not really. If you get me. It's an aspirational image, along the lines of those Got milk? adverts:

We made the piece by first projecting our design:

And got to work drawing over the lines:

Then we took it outside to start painting! We were using spray cans for the first time, they're kind of awesome. Really fun to use, instant gratification.