British artist nick smith uses pantone color swatches to create wonderful pixelated recreations of paintings by vincent van gogh, johannes vermeer, and other masters. I help people to tell their story with clear design, and tell my own through vibrant illustrations. Nick smith art, provides the audience with unique works that celebrate the. Pantone has 26 books on goodreads with 802 ratings. Artist uses thousands of colour chips to create erotic art we previously featured classic paintings recreated with pantone swatches. His debut solo exhibition psycolourgy was on display at lawrence alkin gallery in january 2015 and it was sold out. Mar 26, 2016 nick smith chapter 10, part 1 left nick smith chapter 10, part 2 right from old masters to xrated artwork.
Nick smith pantone classics just discovered nick smiths pantone series are fascinating. In conversation with artist nick smith unknownmale. A simple yet ingenious method of creating famous canonized works of art, braking them down and reassembling them as pixelated, individual pantone colour sample swatches. Pantone swatches in nick smith art form unique erotic visuals. Nick has taken classic pieces of art and overlayed pantone chips for their colors. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. The facing page has twenty color chips with the pantone number and name, showing the wide variety of colors that can all be called green or pink or whatever. Painstakingly built from over 350 individually selected colours, smith in signatures style modifies every chip with new captions, which when put together read as an extract from 14th century italian poet, dante alighieris purgatorio the second part of his. Give an artist or a graphic designer a book of pantone swatches and, quite often, youve lost their attention for hours. Mar 27, 2017 we recently stopped by the latest solo exhibition by artist nick smith, currently on show at lawrence alkin gallery in soho. Artist nick smith is the mastermind behind these colorful recreations. He leaves the reader unable to back track his trail of the breadcrumbs that the reader left to find his way home because paul, unfortunately, gobbled them all up. Painstakingly built from over 350 individually selected colours, smith in signatures style modifies every chip with new captions, which when put together read as an extract from 14th century italian poet, dante alighieris purgatorio the second part of his acclaimed. Sugar coated and sticky sweet, nicks latest edition is as irresistible as the doughy treats themselves.
Seemingly inspired by 8bit graphics of his youth, smith recreates recognizable paintings from a variety of famous artists using little more than a brilliant sense of color and some custom pantone color chips. On each spread, the right page has a single large image for example, green frog, pink pig, etc. Aug 07, 2015 paul pantone, like the inventor he is, forges a new path around every turn of the page. Famous artworks recreated using pantone chips, by artist nick smith. Which reminds me, our firstever booooooom book, remake, comes out. Pantone is your color partner for design, offering tools for color savvy industries from print to apparel to packaging. Feb 19, 2015 famous artworks recreated using pantone chips, by artist nick smith. Nick smiths recreates classic paintings with pantone. So interesting i decided to play with my own in photoshop further down the page. Glasgow born artist nick smith has created a large group of images using a technique that bridges the conceptual space between pixilation and pantones pms. Famous artworks recreated using pantone chips by artist nick.
Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. You see the cmyk color on the guide along side the actual pantone spot color. Formula guides are printed in the actual pantone spot color. British artist nick smith speaks the visual language of a true contemporary artist. Not your typical artist, smith takes inspiration from design, media, fashion and pop culture with subjects such as vivienne westwood, kate moss and patrick bateman recreated in his distinct colour chip style. Famous artworks recreated using pantone chips by artist nick smith. If you look at it up closeclicking on the expand button you will only see the color chips, but if you step backor zoom outyoull see a pixelart version of the original paintings. Paul pantone, like the inventor he is, forges a new path around every turn of the page.
Having had his first solo exhibition in 2015, nick is continuing. Famous artworks recreated using pantone chips by artist. Peter harrington gallery at london original print fair 2020. More recently nick has begun enhancing upon his pantone swatch works. Smith cleverly used simple pantone color chips to approximate famous works of art. Apr 27, 2020 sugar coated and sticky sweet, nicks latest edition is as irresistible as the doughy treats themselves. Though his work uses broad swaths of colors, the pictures are. Pantone swatches in nick smith art form unique erotic. On first sight, artworks made by nick smith might appear just like random color chips stitched together to produce incoherent abstract images.
However, if you move a few steps back, you will recognize the classic paintings in 8bit form. He uses individual pms swatches to represent the average sampled colors in famous paintings and his own photographs. The artwork we are raffling is a specially created, unique, original nick smith. Using nothing but pantone color swatches, artist nick smith creates pixelated versions of famous works of art which look become more and more accurate the famous artworks recreated using pantone chips, by artist nick smith.
The art of nick smith my name is nick smith, i am a storyboard artist and animator from southern california. In other words, the bridge guides are all printed in cmyk to match pantone spot colors as close as possible. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or death threats. The book explores the images of erotic art and aims to take a fresh look of the art movement that often shocks and tingles the mind. Nicholas is an acclaimed uk portrait artist, known for producing highly realistic, meticulously crafted oil paintings. Bridge guides provide process color simulations of all solid pantone color. Pantone color samples collected into an oversized board book.
Classic paintings recreated using pantone color chips. We recently stopped by the latest solo exhibition by artist nick smith, currently on show at lawrence alkin gallery in soho. Which reminds me, our firstever booooooom book, remake, comes out this spring. The book explores the images of erotic art and aims to take a fresh look of the art. English designer nick smith has taken our cultural obsession to the next level, using pantone chips to recreate classic paintings by artists like. Nick smith is a glasgowborn and londonbased contemporary artist who uses pantone swatch cutouts to create his pixelated works of art. With over fifteen years of experience as an awardwinning designer and director, i see graphic design as a public practice it yields the surfaces by which we understand the world.
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