This a a new take on an old subject: the Green Man of the forest. Here my mottled camouflaged Green Man appears in wind swirl of leaves.
Category Archives: My Art
Faces
These three faces were painted yesterday evening, and foiled today. For several days now I have had the image of two profiles, rather simplified & abstract, one red and one green. Separate and both facing to the left.
I have been thinking of these as prints, possibly to be printed from a foil covered mat board plate. But as it happens, my press is a bit hard to access right now, due to my efforts to tidy the rest of the studio. And I don’t seem to have any cut pieces of mat board handy either. So nothing was happening with this nap time vision, until last night in art “class”. Without a better plan, I got out my water soluble graphite pencils and watercolors.
These are not really much like the vague images in my head. OK they are not a all like the images I had in mind. But at least they are visible, out on paper! And now scanned and digitally transformed for a bit more dramatic impact.
Progress
Persistence Required
This has been, and still is, a difficult project for me. I think it may be getting a bit easier, but we will have to see how that pans out! There is some (well quite a bit of) technical challenge here, but the real issue is persistence.
It is so very very necessary to struggle on past the “it will never look like anything but a piece of crap” stage! And I have been procrastinating for the past 10 days or so. I may manage a half hour of work, then I give up and do something (anything!) else for the rest of the day. This puts me in a rather odd fatalistic & hopeless mood, not improved by the current political climate.
At last this project may be moving forward. I think am in transition to the “there is some small hope that I may like this a little bit someday” stage… TBD! This has been more serious than the “now it looks terrible, I hate it” phases that are inevitable but usually short-lived.
One goal is to get the three part sculpture starts above to something that embodies the concept drawing at right. The other goal is to end up with pieces I can use to make molds for casting on other materials. So wish me luck please!
Resin & Foiled Photos
Now Available: Angst
This image is now available for order on RedBubble products (clothing, home, etc.): absolutely all the angst you could ask for!
Or perhaps primal scream therapy?
Refinements
Studio Lighting
Years ago I paid $10 for a box of “miscellaneous studio lighting” at a garage sale, then never tried using it until today. In the Larson Lighting Inc. box is a floor stand, one of the two Reflectasol umbrellas, two lights (one with 2 bulbs!), and a cunning hand grip for mounting a camera and a light. The Reflectasol umbrella has a glittery side that can be used as a reflector, or you can diffuse your light through it. The second light may be a flash, but no bulbs so I will ignore that for now. There are no instructions, just a few pictures that barely…
Anyway here is my first experiment with using the umbrella and light for a diffused lighting, with the studio in grey & cloudy winter morning light. I used the studio light through the umbrella, and had my studio overhead lighting on. For the last photo I added a flourescent truecolor reading light approximately 4′ away aimed at my subject.
I do think the umbrella and bright light may be helpful in getting decent photos of my 3-D work.
More Birds
After the ghastly school shooting in Florida, I am so horrified that of course I prefer not to think about it at all; from my safety I have that luxury. But that seems so wrong, and I listened to NPR list the shooting victims with a brief statement about each of them as provided by their families. Now I have a title for the bird piece above left: “No Safety”.
