Compose two styles
Rather than blending two styles into a middle, this assigns them roles: one carries the structure, the other appears as an accent. Where the two fight, it says so before you start.
How to divide the work
- Composition
- Follow African Barbershop Sign: Grid of equal frames with every face drawn at the same angle
- Type
- Set in African Barbershop Sign's manner (Number each cut and paint only the shop name large by hand), and let Ghanaian Movie Poster's lettering (Titles sized letter by letter, lifted off the surface with outline and shadow) appear only where you want the eye to catch.
- Material
- Ground in African Barbershop Sign's material (Enamel on plywood, few colors, black outlines holding it together); bring in exactly one thing from Ghanaian Movie Poster (Enamel laid thick on sewn sacking, creases and seams left showing).
- Colour
- Build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 and admit one accent from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615.
Where they fight
These two are already listed as related, so the join should come easily.
Caution
- African Barbershop Sign Individualizing the faces as portraits breaks the catalogue function, and customers can no longer use the board to order.
- Ghanaian Movie Poster Borrowing the exaggeration for laughs alone erases the exhibition need that produced it, and the picture ends up mocking somebody else's living.
Image prompt
An original image that takes its structure from African Barbershop Sign (Style, 1950s–) and its accent from Ghanaian Movie Poster (Style, 1980s–2000s). Structural cues: Grids of haircut samples; Flat repeated faces; Numbers and hand lettering; Enamel on plywood. Accent cues, used sparingly: Flour-sack canvas; Exaggerated violence and muscle; Free departure from the actual film; Hand-painted title lettering. Composition: Grid of equal frames with every face drawn at the same angle. Type and lettering: Number each cut and paint only the shop name large by hand. Let one material quality come from the second style: Enamel laid thick on sewn sacking, creases and seams left showing. Mood: Intimacy, Play, Trust, Rebellion, Exhilaration. Color: build on #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615 with a single accent drawn from #e9e6dd, #67635d, #171615. Constraints: do not imitate, reference or name any specific artist, studio, brand, character or copyrighted work. Produce an original composition in the general period languages described above.
Related entries
- African Barbershop Sign 1950s– / Style / Signage and Display
The hand-painted signboards of West African barbershops: numbered haircut samples in a grid, flat repeated faces sitting between product catalogue and portraiture.
- Ghanaian Movie Poster 1980s–2000s / Style / Regional Graphics
Ghana's hand-painted movie posters on flour-sack canvas, made for mobile cinema: unconstrained imagination reinterpreting Hollywood with exaggeration and local horror into a painting style like no other.
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