By now, I think a lot of you have already seen this movie, but that doesn’t stop me from sharing awesome artworks related to this movie. Today an impressive 150-foot Dark Knight Rises ad painted on the side of a building at 315 Park Avenue South in New York City. This mural took about five days of sunrise-to-sunset painting to complete…
A life-sized rendition of the artwork is broken down into a simple outline. This is called the cartoon and is, in fact, where the modern use of the word “cartoon” comes from. Holes are punched through the outline to form a dotted stencil that is then gone over with a charcoal pounce. By the end, they have the wall mapped out with the most basic shapes and proportions in place. The oil-based paint is then mixed to match the larger portions of the painting, leaving the subtle blending and mixing to be handled ala prima on the wall. Each painter has a print-out of the design strapped to their arm, like a mini shield, that they use as a guide as they flesh out all the details. It took four guys about five days of sunrise-to-sunset painting to complete The Dark Knight Rises.
