For Koons' 'Gazing Ball' series of classical painting replicas, the studio developed an even more comprehensive process: the original paintings were separated into composite colors in Photoshop, stencils were created for each color, and the painting's initial layers on canvas were positioned relative to the original reference, with each small area containing 250-300 colors and the average painting containing 7,000 total colors.
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“for the very large collection of gazing ball paintings where the studio perfectly replicated around 50 classical paintings the team would first separate the original painting into its composite colors in Photoshop and then make a stencil shape of that particular color...each small area...had around 250 to 300 colors with the average painting having 7,000 colors in total”
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