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"everything is knot a torus"
(tho, not all of these qualify as knots, unknots included as well. so, clearly: not everything is knot a torus)
One of my first attempts at using liquid emulsion on wax, in the spirit of Tina Maas' work.
For the wax plate:
I poured the melted beeswax onto parchment paper on the kitchen counter, and then pressed a glass plate over the hardening wax, weighted down with books. After a few minutes, I peeled off the parchment, and coated that smooth side with liquid light emulsion under a safelight.
emulsion coating:
Wax is very challenging to coat! Because the wax repels the emulsion, I ended up just pouring the emulsion onto the wax in a thick coat, and sort of guided it around with my foam brush.
After about 8 hours, the emulsion was dry. I then contact printed a paper negative onto the wax plate, adn developed with standard black and white chemistry. During rinsing with water, the wax separated from the glass backing, which was just fine. (the wax was thick enough not to be extremely fragile)
I took this photo of the finished plate (with my digital SLR) while held up to the sunshine. (taped to a window)
I love the results on wax! I'll be doing more!
1. Image out of camera, 1/4 sec at f/1.8, WB 2700K.
2. White balance adjusted in UFRaw (Linux).
3. Red and Blue channels inverted in CS5 (channel mixer).
Image taken with unmodified Nikon D300s using Nikkor 35mm f/1.8G lens and Hoya R72 IR filter. In camera WB was 2700K, exp. 1/4 sec at f/1.8... ISO 800 Exp. Bias +5.
Image was moved to Linux for White balance and tint adjustment in UFRaw with GIMP. This is roughly the equivalent of Halogen correction.
Then moved to W7 for CS5 channel mixer, where red and blue channels were swapped for a more natural look. In Channel mixer, red channel, change red +100 to -100, green from 0 to +100 and blue from 0 to +100. Blue channel, change red from 0 to +100, green from 0 to +100, and blue from +100 to -100.
today i painted my first pregnant model for the body painting series inside T.Ruth Artspace gallery( www.truthartspace.com ) portland oregon
Model: Michelle Davis
blogged here: lucidrose.blogspot.com/2010/04/mother-goddess-body-painti...
Near the end of the summer, I was asked by the publishers of Popular Science magazine to produce a visualization piece that explored the archive of their publication. PopSci has a history that spans almost 140 years, so I knew there would be plenty of material to draw from. Working with Mark Hansen, I ended up making a graphic that showed how different technical and cultural terms have come in and out of use in the magazine since it's inception.
starting to work on a series of stools based on our xylem system
first step, turn our 2d line based applet into 3d mesh. status: in process, threshold/smoothing issues
Image transfer on watercolor paper done using Citrasolv cleaner. It's very addictive making these little transfers.
Tutorial: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Nedq-m7KO0
Experimented with some cross processing in Aperture.
If you want to try it, go here for a good how-to article.
Vignette added.
Sample renders for sculpture. What do you think I should cut it from - wood or plastic? Or maybe cardboard?
2 shots on colour transparency film, scanned, stitched, greyscaled and textured.
The light leak was real at least.
Is it pointless?