Klee variations palimpsest
Changed and assembled with iPad apps PhotoWizard, Aquarella HD, and Procreate. One example of the kinds of changes that I made was to remove all the whitest white, creating a mask with open space where the white had been, and then showing colors from another painting underneath. Of course, most of the other colors have also been radically changed. And yet Klee's style still comes through very strong, I think, because he was so much into mixed media and layers himself, long before computer art and iPads were even imagined. Playing through all the steps of this process has given me ideas and methods to apply to more original pictures. This is very much an homage to Paul Klee, sort of themes and variations, remotely remniscent of what some music students improvise into a medley of parts of pieces from a favorite composer.
(At a student recital I once attended a medley of Erik Satie pieces was featured, which was most appropriate because Satie's pieces are themselves often very derivative, yet somehow distinctly original and oddly difficult to imitate -- so I've been told and can hear a little bit of for myself.)
Klee variations palimpsest
Changed and assembled with iPad apps PhotoWizard, Aquarella HD, and Procreate. One example of the kinds of changes that I made was to remove all the whitest white, creating a mask with open space where the white had been, and then showing colors from another painting underneath. Of course, most of the other colors have also been radically changed. And yet Klee's style still comes through very strong, I think, because he was so much into mixed media and layers himself, long before computer art and iPads were even imagined. Playing through all the steps of this process has given me ideas and methods to apply to more original pictures. This is very much an homage to Paul Klee, sort of themes and variations, remotely remniscent of what some music students improvise into a medley of parts of pieces from a favorite composer.
(At a student recital I once attended a medley of Erik Satie pieces was featured, which was most appropriate because Satie's pieces are themselves often very derivative, yet somehow distinctly original and oddly difficult to imitate -- so I've been told and can hear a little bit of for myself.)