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interesting toothpaste - one had some kind of "milk calcium" filling in it. Another, has a "red hot invigorating spicy flavour".
This is a project where I posted a twit on twitter saying "for the next 100 people that add me on twitter ( twitter.com/marchorowitz ) I'll send you a small drawing." I think it's a nice analog way to connect analogly in a digital space.
This is one of the drawings that was sent out. It was also exhibited with all the other drawings in the series as part of a group show called "The Future Is Not What It Used To Be."
Leaving the cap off the toothpaste. No one in our house actually has this habit so our toothpaste never gets crusty.
Shutter Speed - slow
Movement - frozen
Aperture - medium
Depth of Field - narrow
Light - quantity is small, quality is contrasty and direction is from 3/4 back.
Colour - I really wanted the focal point to be the toothpaste tube hue and this worked better in darker lighting. I experimented with a lighter setting (slower shutter speed) but this took the toothpaste too much out of the focus.
Aquatint (copper etching) and chine colle
I did this in my printmaking class -- which sort of made me want to switch and study printmaking instead of painting. I didn't, but I still wish I did more printmaking. That's why I screenprint these days. I love the possibility of high-quality, detailed multiples that printmaking presents. Maybe I'll get lucky someday and a printing press will fall in my lap.