{"id":888,"date":"2018-11-18T15:59:06","date_gmt":"2018-11-18T23:59:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/?p=888"},"modified":"2018-11-19T23:16:27","modified_gmt":"2018-11-20T07:16:27","slug":"the-goonies-painting-is-it-good-enough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/2018\/11\/18\/the-goonies-painting-is-it-good-enough\/","title":{"rendered":"The Goonies Painting &#8211; Is it &#8220;Good Enough?&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"fb_share_1\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;;width: 55px;\" name=\"fb_share\"><div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div><script src=\"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/all.js#appId=125029517579627&amp;xfbml=1\"><\/script><fb:like href=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/2018\/11\/18\/the-goonies-painting-is-it-good-enough\/\" send=\"false\" layout=\"box_count\" width=\"55\" show_faces=\"false\" font=\"arial\"><\/fb:like><\/div><p><figure id=\"attachment_953\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-953\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/goonies_040514.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/goonies_040514-600x338.jpg\" alt=\"The Goonies (1985)\" width=\"474\" height=\"267\" class=\"size-large wp-image-953\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/goonies_040514-600x338.jpg 600w, http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/goonies_040514-300x169.jpg 300w, http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/goonies_040514-768x432.jpg 768w, http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/goonies_040514.jpg 800w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-953\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Goonies (1985)<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nWhile seeking to include all of the characters and the general setting of the story, I didn&#8217;t want it devolving into another generic movie poster. That was the challenge with my recent painting of the 1985 classic &#8220;The Goonies.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>This film is one of my all time favorites. I think kids loved this movie because the stars were young teenagers on an exciting adventure in search of pirate treasure and I think we all dreamed of finding buried treasure as kids at some point. I decided to mix actual scenes of the film with fabricated scenes to illustrate the lightheartedness of the story. Sloth and Chunk take the focus in this work because I felt they provided the most heart of the film. From the antagonist side, Mama Fratelli was great for her scowls, and smoker&#8217;s voice. She brought a wonderful comedic presence in a menacing demeanor.<\/p>\n<p>Behind these three characters is a scene from the film with some injected artistic license. In the film, the Fratelli&#8217;s are chasing the Goonies and encounter a log across a subterranean creek. The kids had to race across the dangerous and wet bridge in order to escape the criminal family. The change I made to that scene involved placing a Fratelli brother on each side of the log. I only made this decision in order to give the Goonies&#8217; kids something to respond to on each side. My hope was to make the scene a little more dynamic.<\/p>\n<p>The length of time for this project from conception to completion was about 3 1\/2 years. There was a long period of inactivity due to my family obligations. However, once I made the commitment to finish the painting, I was pleased with the overall results. You&#8217;ll see from the upcoming video, that the most difficult parts of the painting were rendering Mama Fratelli and Chunk&#8217;s likeness. I took photos of them and had to rotate their faces in my mind to get the look and expression I was looking for. I believe I repainted both faces at least a dozen times before I settled on the final result. Figure likenesses are so challenging &#8211; I guess that&#8217;s why I like doing them. I debated for months on whether or not to repaint entire sections of this work. Eventually, I decided to call it a painting. I try not to be a perfectionist when painting and I surely don&#8217;t want a painting driving me crazy as I try to reach an unobtainable vision of perfection. When you look upon this work, I hope you find yourself smiling and remembering the first time you saw this classic adventure comedy.<br \/>\n\n<div id=\"sb_instagram\"  class=\"sbi sbi_mob_col_1 sbi_tab_col_2 sbi_col_4\" style=\"padding-bottom: 10px; background-color: rgb(48,76,39); width: 100%;\"\t data-feedid=\"sbi_#8\"  data-res=\"auto\" data-cols=\"4\" data-colsmobile=\"1\" data-colstablet=\"2\" data-num=\"8\" data-nummobile=\"\" data-item-padding=\"5\"\t data-shortcode-atts=\"{}\"  data-postid=\"888\" data-locatornonce=\"d2c8f8fa6f\" data-imageaspectratio=\"1:1\" data-sbi-flags=\"favorLocal\">\n\t\n\t<div id=\"sbi_images\"  style=\"gap: 10px;\">\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\n\t<div id=\"sbi_load\" >\n\n\t\n\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t<span class=\"sbi_resized_image_data\" data-feed-id=\"sbi_#8\"\n\t\t  data-resized=\"[]\">\n\t<\/span>\n\t<\/div>\n\n<br \/>\nI&#8217;ve done some movie paintings in the past and this will not be the last. In fact, you can expect some fun movie projects from me in 2019. There will be a twist however and I&#8217;ll explain that later. For now, look at my Instagram account for clues(@the_art_of_ryan_williams).<br \/>\n<figure id=\"attachment_959\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-959\" style=\"width: 474px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gooniessmall.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gooniessmall-600x450.png\" alt=\"Goonies and Fratellis (2018) Oil on canvas. By Ryan Williams\" width=\"474\" height=\"356\" class=\"size-large wp-image-959\" srcset=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gooniessmall-600x450.png 600w, http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gooniessmall-300x225.png 300w, http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gooniessmall-768x577.png 768w, http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/gooniessmall.png 1300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 474px) 100vw, 474px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goonies and Fratellis (2018) Oil on canvas. By Ryan Williams<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nArray\r\n\t\t  <div \r\n\t\t  \tclass = \"fb-comments\" \r\n\t\t  \tdata-href = \"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/2018\/11\/18\/the-goonies-painting-is-it-good-enough\/\"\r\n\t\t  \tdata-numposts = \"10\"\r\n\t\t\tdata-colorscheme = \"light\"\r\n\t\t\tdata-order-by = \"social\"\r\n\t\t\tdata-width=100%>\r\n\t\t  <\/div>\r\n\t\t  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While seeking to include all of the characters and the general setting of the story, I didn&#8217;t want it devolving into another generic movie poster. That was the challenge with my recent painting of the 1985 classic &#8220;The Goonies.&#8221; This film is one of my all time favorites. I think kids loved this movie because &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/2018\/11\/18\/the-goonies-painting-is-it-good-enough\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">The Goonies Painting &#8211; Is it &#8220;Good Enough?&#8221;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-posts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=888"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":963,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/888\/revisions\/963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/ryanwilliamsart.com\/artblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}