Making of It's a New Worldby Vinod Shantaram More, India



The idea behind this painting came to me 4-5 months back when I was looking at a broken hardware from my PC. It was always there in my mind, that how much similar they both were... the hardware's with their circuits and leaves with their veins.  I always found them resembling in terms of shape, look, color and function, but totally contrasting at the same time as natural and manmade elements....It was then, looking at that piece of hardware that I thought of working on this concept.

I was pretty clear about the thought behind it, but somehow I was not getting it correct on the canvas. I spent 6-10 days working on this image but that could not satisfy me. Finally I left the painting. But I was always having this concept rendering back in my mind



After few months, it was now, that I again sat with the same thought and made rough color sketches which clicked to me. I got the clear picture that I was looking for all this time. After spending enough time understanding the elements and composition I started gathering raw material.



I browsed for the references like computer garbage, plugs, pins, keyboards, leaves, plants, forest, creepers and everything that I found useful. After collecting 30-40 reference images, I sorted out things that were suitable for my concept. My idea was; mostly to use readymade stuff like keyboard, cables, plants and leaves. I was not willing to spend time on painting them. But as soon as I started putting them in, somehow it was not fitting to my idea. I want every single element to be placed as my thoughts and that was not possible with readymade stuff.



Then I painted the keyboard in a way that I can place it and take it further. Then I studied the flow of circuits with one scrap hardware that I found road side a day before. And then I designed basic high resolution circuitry keeping a leaf as reference to follow shape and flow of veins. Here my most laborious part was over. Now I had to go more creative with placement, lighting and rendering.