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Moody Experiment.
Some photos from a place you might already recognize, as there're many photos of it here. This time I tried to make something different out of the familiar views. After all, this is a landscape that probably is not scenic this time of the year. At least not for me, not in the usual sense. But of course there's a certain mood -- which might be something that comes out of myself, but I'm sure not without some stimulus, outside, it is really there, somehow. Can it be pictured? Can it be conveyed? How can you depict the actual first impression?
On a technical note: All done with old 50mm f/1.7 lens, all wide open, I used a Kenko nostaltone blue for diffusion and color shift. „Enhanced" in LR & PS.
Red and pinks aren't usually my color of choice, but I really like how this one turned out. Definitely my favorite of the experiments last night. I'll take what I learned from this one and expand on it with more layers and textures I think.
Davide experimenting while the ferry docks. I would pay a lot of money to know what the docking-guy was thinking at that moment...(Picture taken by のりちゃん, Nikon D-80)
GCSE – Surfaces (set topic). My initial experiments focused on looking at patterns that are produced from rubbings of textured surfaces. I researched the artist Max Ernst who developed the technique of frottage. I took charcoal rubbings from objects such as tyres, gratings and man-hole covers. Later, I decided to explore how surfaces change with burning having been inspired by the ‘messy’ artwork of Anselm Kieffer. In particular, I liked how plastic shrank and twisted into fascinating shapes. This effect is used by artist Alberto Burri, however in my opinion his pieces seem rather boring in terms of colour and composition. I continued my own experimental work by incorporating acrylic and wire mesh into melted plastic. Although both gave interesting results, I especially liked the way wire allowed the plastic to cling to it and therefore chose to develop this idea. I created a collage on canvas by melting different coloured plastics onto chicken wire. I painted the canvas in Kiefer’s style and experimented with the composition by burning holes into it as well as incorporating a variety of plastic objects in the mesh structure. The overall effect was a little too ‘busy’ so I opted to use an open wooden frame for my larger final piece.
Terrain experiment: Work-in-progress. See more: content.stamen.com/open-terrain-in-progress-knight-founda...
As you can plainly see, the experiment in this case worked rather well. (Even though they didn't technically cancel the stamp.)
Sitting around patiently for around 4 hours tends to make you go a bit silly, which was fine by Chris. He doesn't mind getting silly night of the living dead shots.
I take my practice where I can get it. I take advantage of my father-daughter time to practice and experiment with whatever art supplies are at hand. This is crayola washable paint, and colored sharpies on watercolor paper. Lessons learned: 1) washable paint is not that good for layering because it "washes" off :) 2) watercolor paper must usually be prepped by wetting, and stretching (it warped and buckled) 3) I need to use grown-up art supplies some time soon!
The subject was picked from one of my toon jellyfish sketches. Hope you like!