Famous artworks recreated using pantone chips, by artist nick smith. Nick smiths recreates classic paintings with pantone. Give an artist or a graphic designer a book of pantone swatches and, quite often, youve lost their attention for hours. They publish books on the topic and have a smart phone app to help. His debut solo exhibition psycolourgy was on display at lawrence alkin gallery in january 2015 and it was sold out. My name is nick smith, i am a storyboard artist and animator from southern california. Art nick smith nick smith has created an hilarious set of works for his show psycolourgy at the lawrence alkin gallery in london, currently showing through february 21st, 2015. 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. Famous art recreated from pantone color chips famous art. Though his work uses broad swaths of colors, the pictures are still recognizable, looking almost like 8bit art.
So interesting i decided to play with my own in photoshop further down the page. British artist nick smith uses pantone color swatches to create wonderful pixelated recreations of paintings by vincent van gogh, johannes vermeer, and other masters. Nick has taken classic pieces of art and overlayed pantone chips for their colors. English designer nick smith has taken our cultural obsession to the next level, using pantone chips to recreate classic paintings by artists like. However, if you move a few steps back, you will recognize the classic paintings in 8bit form. Using pantone swatch cutouts, the glasgowborn artist recreated some of the most iconic works of art to date including munchs. Pantone is your color partner for design, offering tools for color savvy industries from print to apparel to packaging. Peter harrington gallery at london original print fair 2020. The only thing that gets art and design people more worked up than pantone swatches is the rampant overuse of comic sans. British artist nick smith speaks the visual language of a true contemporary artist.
Which reminds me, our firstever booooooom book, remake, comes out. Nick smith is a glasgowborn and londonbased contemporary artist who uses pantone swatch cutouts to create his pixelated works of art. More recently nick has begun enhancing upon his pantone swatch works. Im hiking, going for walks, or listening to french house music. The art of nick smith my name is nick smith, i am a storyboard artist and animator from southern california.
On first sight, artworks made by nick smith might appear just like random color chips stitched together to produce incoherent abstract images. With amazing examples that explore this dynamic world, the book present. Can you recognize these super pixelated famous pieces. Nicholas is an acclaimed uk portrait artist, known for producing highly realistic, meticulously crafted oil paintings.
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. 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. Smith cleverly used simple pantone color chips to approximate famous works of art. Tableaux pantone par nick smith famous art, pantone. Feb 04, 2015 give an artist or a graphic designer a book of pantone swatches and, quite often, youve lost their attention for hours. Nick smith art, provides the audience with unique works that celebrate the.
Nick smiths playfully arranges pantone swatches to paper to recreate famous paintings from girl with a pearl earring to mona lisa. Artist recreates famous paintings using pantone color. The book explores the images of erotic art and aims to take a fresh look of the art. Using hundreds of pantone swatches, he has presented pixilated versions of famous works such as edvard munchs the scream. Etsy is the home to thousands of handmade, vintage, and oneofakind products and gifts related to your search. This lets you compare how close the cmyk color is to the spot ink.
Artist recreates masterpieces using only pantone swatches. No matter what youre looking for or where you are in the world, our global marketplace of sellers can help you find unique and affordable options. 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. Artist nick smith is the mastermind behind these colorful recreations. The artwork we are raffling is a specially created, unique, original nick smith.
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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. Using hundreds of pantone swatches, he has presented pixilated versions of famous works such as. 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. 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. Having had his first solo exhibition in 2015, nick is continuing. On each spread, the right page has a single large image for example, green frog, pink pig, etc. Paul pantone, like the inventor he is, forges a new path around every turn of the page. Nick smith prints for sale nick smith print urban art. Join facebook to connect with nick pantone and others you may know. Which reminds me, our firstever booooooom book, remake, comes out this spring. In other words, the bridge guides are all printed in cmyk to match pantone spot colors as close as possible.
Pantone color samples collected into an oversized board book. We recently stopped by the latest solo exhibition by artist nick smith, currently on show at lawrence alkin gallery in soho. Known worldwide as the standard language for accurate color communication, from designer to manufacturer to retailer to customer. 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. Nick smith instagram and website, nick smith prints for sale street art, urban art auction news and results, official artist prints canvas and painting wanted by collectors, forum with discussions ranging from graffiti to contemporary art, the original banksy forum. Nick smith pantone classics just discovered nick smiths pantone series are fascinating. 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. Famous art recreated from pantone color chips fast company. If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or death threats. He uses individual pms swatches to represent the average sampled colors in famous paintings and his own photographs.
Artistic masterpiece rendered in pantone paint swatches art by nick smith, via dangerousminds 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 londonbased artist nick smith recreates famous paintings using pantone color chips. Similarly, visionary artist nick smith has put on a series of works inspired by the tales of the erotic literature of the past. 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. Designers and clients have an optimistic opportunity to engage the public by seeing our products beyond the fundamental service, and as creating artifacts that have a role in shaping the publics lived. Visual artist nick smith is back with a new series of artworks. 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.
Oct 20, 2017 british artist nick smith speaks the visual language of a true contemporary artist. Classic paintings recreated using pantone color chips. Famous artworks recreated using pantone chips by artist. Mar 27, 2017 we recently stopped by the latest solo exhibition by artist nick smith, currently on show at lawrence alkin gallery in soho. Bridge guides provide process color simulations of all solid pantone color. I help people to tell their story with clear design, and tell my own through vibrant illustrations. Though his work uses broad swaths of colors, the pictures are. Glasgow born artist, nick smith produces striking versions of iconic artworks, with the exclusive use of colour swatches. Artist nick smiths first solo show, psycolourgy, at the lawrence alkin gallery features his impressive recreations of masters paintings with. Smiths pantone paintings are on display at psycolourgy, his solo show at lawrence alkin gallery in london through february 21, 2015. Facebook gives people the power to share and makes the. The coated combo pairs our formula guide to pantone spot colours with our color bridge guide to cmyk equivalents in one costsaving bundle. Famous artworks recreated using pantone chips by artist nick smith. Artist uses thousands of colour chips to create erotic art we previously featured classic paintings recreated with pantone swatches.
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