At first I struggled with what I wanted to do for my display unit. Since I'm never really too fond of any golf store display unit. I find them to be run-of-the-mill usually, and something that I would just love to throw out once all the items have been sold. My first rough sketch for a golf course started out looking like this...
Quite rough, but brings out the idea of an aerial view of a golf course. Such pictures are featured in golf pro shops around the country. Some can be quite exquisite, others quite bland. I thought that making one to hold watches would be really neat. But after further review seemed too tedious and not necessary.
So I then thought of another idea involving mini bridges, a center watch, and various colors, seen below...
The problem with this was that it ended up being too busy, the focus was lost with the various different techniques and watches, and almost too simple to do in the end. So that idea was cut.
Then while at the art supply store I spotted my eye on a pretty piece of canvas that was wrapped around a frame. Earlier that day I had been complaining about the whiteness of my walls and thought about doing artwork. So I thought why not paint a golf course? I've never really painted, but it could be fun? And so it was...see below...
Using acrylic paints and brushes I was able to work somewhat abstractly on these two holes that I painted. Painting real life things doesn't really attract me. More modern designs give the viewer something to think about and interpret. I like to use my brain, what can I say? Part of my influence came from the artist Rita Shapiro. Her work can be found on
http://ritashapiroart.com/. She's actually a family friend of the family. One of her pieces that I enjoyed can be seen below...
It's called Synchrony and is an oil on canvas and the picture has been taken from
Synchrony.
And from this I decided to just make one centered green, with various other colors surrounding it, not traditional to the game of golf... seen below...
By using these colors, I made the hole itself more fun and appealing. But then I needed a way to store the extra watches that would be sold later on, once the display models were gone. And so the idea of a box came up. With drawers. But since I wanted to continue the idea of finding the hole and scoring, I saw this picture of a store in Tokyo that is all digital on the exterior...
And from here I came up with an idea to make secret drawers that would blend in with the rest of the squares, in effect creating a challenge for the shopper. But using plain black and white colors seemed to be a tad boring to me. And so I found this catalog that kind of looked like the same pattern as seen on the building...seen below...
The colors in this catalog are much more appealing and pop out to the viewer, which gave me more inspiration for what kind of work with paint I could do.
And so my interest in painting seemed to help in bringing my project along. Very exciting.
