In the 1970s, a documentary called Tricks of War, featured on the TV program Globo Repórter, blew my mind, both by presenting details of a movie I wanted to see but couldn't at the time due to my family's inability to fulfill the request, and by showing images that opened my mind to the visual possibilities previously conceived and idealized for application in the film.
It was so fascinating that, when I saw the matte artist Harrison Ellenshaw painting on a glass plate, which was later applied to the footage to create the illusion of vast spaces beneath the platform where Obi Wan Kenobi stood, it immediately made me think, 'Can you do that with a brush?'
That definitively sparked my desire to work with drawing, art, illustration, or whatever name that visual representation made by an artist had.
Star Wars, besides being an adventure without compromise between good and evil, is a creative hub for the most diverse possibilities of what can be done, from sculpture to painting, during pre-production, regardless of the media to which the production is destined.
That simple fact alone is sufficient to be a source of inspiration, in my case, to test various painting techniques to represent a project.
Movie posters are also another old passion, but that's another story. Here, I wanted to make my representation for a movie poster of Episode IV: A New Hope.
After assembling the bouquet of photos and arranging the scenes in the best way in a digital and printed collage for reference, I started drawing and finishing with chalk on the chalkboard.
It is an extremely simple technique but requires patience to achieve the best result and to use the maximum potential of the material, which is school chalk.
The most incredible thing is that, after finishing the art, the best way to preserve it is by applying a transparent acrylic board over the chalkboard frame, thus ensuring longevity for the finished artwork.
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