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Finally i am finished with this painting. the heat had me movin slow so it took longer then expected to finished this piece but here it is, hot off the easel. Now its waiting to dry so that i can sign it and apply varnish to it. Once i am all done with that i will take up-close, high quality detail pictures of it.
...with this painting i documented my creation process step by step and put it into a set.
I wrote a blog chronicalling the creative process with this painting from the first rough sketch to the last brush stroke. read about it here: lucidrose.blogspot.com/
This building, which I saw for the first time over a year ago, is nothing short of miraculous.
So perfect and intricate are its colorful and varying degrees of decay, the fabric disintegrated to threads, the papered-over windows water stained and peeling, the rusted hinges, the empty places where windows once were.
It stands alone in a neighborhood of big white houses. Like a frail, naked old woman in a room full of hapless people wearing white tee shirts and jeans. No one will look at her, but she is as beautiful as she is delicate.
© laura kicey
Arches Aquarelle cotton paper.
4g potassium bromide
4g sodium chloride
240ml water
Immersed for 3 minutes then dried.
Sensitizer
16g silver
8g citric acid
240ml water
Brushed on one coat then dried. Defiantly needs two or three coats next time.
Exposed in shade for about 7 minutes than bright sun for 1 minute. A nice dark image was observed on the paper prior to salt bath.
Salt bath
10g citric acid
30g salt
1000ml water
Image faded considerably in salt bath wash for about 2 minutes. Then washed in water for 1 hour. Image became dark again during dry down.
edit: cross process, softness bottom: vignette
I went on a drive today with my pen pal's mix cd "autumn is for dreamers" and my favorite part was hearing sufjun steven's "casimar pulaski day" through my speakers and seeing the leaves blow in the rear view mirror as I drove away.
I shall have to assemble a small album of these; they may be of slight interest to those few cranks, reactionaries, flat-earthers and eccentrics who, "in denial" of, and unable to "handle" modernity, persist in using film and doing their own processing. With the real ale aficionados, the people who don't watch television, prefer open fires, keep free-range hens, continue to write letters, refuse to use the self-service checkouts in supermarkets, attach some importance to the correct use of apostrophes and don't own mobile phones, they are among the very best people in our society. Never mind. They'll all be dying off during the coming decades, leaving future progress unopposed.
This was from my one and only attempt at "stand" developing. We are in Oxford Street on Tuesday 20th September 2011. The film was Rollei Retro 400S developed in "Rodinal" (actually Adox APH09) for an hour with only thirty seconds of agitation at the start. I failed to record the dilution, but it was probably 1:100. Well. You can see that mysterious dark area in the sky. Now what caused that? The fault extends through the upper part of the closest tree, so it seems to be a fault associated with the highest, rather than the lightest, part of the photograph. In the other frames, the problem is mostly confined to the top right-hand quarter of the photo. Apart from the sky the photo looks reasonably OK.
Five short years ago only one of the passers-by appears to be using a mobile phone. How unimpressive Oxford Street looks these days. Divested of its traffic and furnished with subtopian "street furniture", is this the main "popular" shopping street of a world capital ...or the high street of ...I dunno, Swansea?
Image taken by AussiePhill from mu-43.com
Post-Processing by Myself
Original image & challenge description at: www.mu-43.com/threads/post-processing-challenge-238.83753...
Sometimes memories are not at all like the actual event, yet they are what stays with us and eventually become reality.
The Flickr Lounge-Home Utensils
I love my Cuisinart Food Processor. It works really good and doesn't leak like my old Kitchen-aid one did!
Let it run the duration of Kirlian Isles III (by The Flashbulb off the album Kirlian Selections) and saved out prints every 100 frames. Also saved the camera view into a 100MB video.
s3.amazonaws.com/flight404/magneticInk_01.mov
Its not super interesting. I actually like the first couple tests more than this one, but I decided to go ahead and post it with the video so those that are interested can see more of the process. This image is the end product of 34 overlapping layers.