Category: Art attacks
My cellphone sees… Breach
My first two colour print. One of a kind because none of the others turned out.
My cellphone sees… Bunnies
Bunny in red!
My cellphone sees… Photo Emulsion Bunnies
Screen bunny part 3…
And voila! Screen bunny complete!
My cellphone sees… Screen Printing
Leslie gave me a starter screen printing kit, so I have no excuse not to print hundreds and hundreds of my unique pieces for all my readers. Heh. And now the learning curve…
Oops. Busy bunnies…
First pull. Used a stencil I cut out by hand. Not so bad for such an easy method…
Screen bunny Part 1 #todaysbunny
This bunny will be my first attempt at photo emulsion print.
This original is based on a pencil sketch that I traced lightly on tracing paper. Then I inked it on the tracing paper and then inked the reverse to get a solid black.
Screen bunny part 2!
The exposed image…
I exposed it using the tracing paper placed over top of a screen that was prepared with Diazo photo emulsion. I placed the tracing paper directly on the screen, covering it with a sheet of clear acrylic and then placed it under (12 inches under) a 250 watt BBA No. 1 Photoflood bulb with a pie tin reflector for 10 minutes.
Old Art
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- Wings
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- Breach
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- Hands
My mom dropped off a bunch of the genealogies she had worked and it turns out they are more family archives than anything. One binder contained a calendar I made for my mom in ’92 with a bunch of drawings I had done. Some of them were old themes I had played with over and over but there was a simplicity in those versions that I loved.
Colour
I’ve been playing around with colourization a bit. Here is a sample using a chubby fellow I photographed in Trier. It utilizes a couple of different techniques and isn’t exactly a work of art, but it gave me a feel for the colours themselves. I deliberately used a statue to avoid having to fight with a real complexion….
Zoom as Macro
I have been increasingly suffering from dust specs and smudges on my iPhone 5 lens. At least I assumed it was my lens. Turned out the ‘dust’ was actually in the camera sensor itself and not cleanable at all. You can see the smudges and specks quite clearly in this photo. It was, unfortunately, getting increasingly worse. In the end I bit the bullet and made use of Apple’s replacement program and shelled out the $269 to replace my phone.
So today was about testing out the camera and ensuring the problem was gone.
Using the Camera+ app I realized the zoom would work quite well as a macro feature. Artemis volunteered to pose so I could try it out. It is a digital zoom though so the quality does degenerate. Still, not bad for a camera on a phone…
Foreshortening…
I snapped this pic of Pete on the stairs the other day. Due to the angle, it was an extreme example of foreshortening and not only did the cat get shortened, it made her lifespan a bit shorter too. She totally looks like a kitten in this shot…
The Shadows of Today
Nothing is so rife or so suggestive as the contrast between light and dark. Often we are blinded by colour and seek only to strip away distractions and see what lies in the shadows.
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An Essay in Pictures
I remember spring.
Water rushing, the soaked hem of my jeans, racing sticks down torrents of meltwater before slowing floating across vast placid ponds.
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