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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 02/22/2007 : 00:19:15
You may want to read my article in the current online edition of
Transition Tradition
which also features one of my digital collages. The link to Field of Vision in the article should be
this one, for another of my collages about modern China.
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| BaftaBaby |
Posted - 02/27/2007 : 10:43:51
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Originally posted by shoon
How did you make those? Just curious really, only thing I make anything remotely artistic with is Photoshop.
Hi Frisbee-King!
Well, I alternate between Photoshop and PaintShopPro - only because I find the latter more user friendly. I'm no expert, but love collaging images. The Madonna one took absolute ages. First in sourcing the images, then manipulating them sufficiently to make them my own [my version of scratch music!]. I deliberately kept the original position of Madonna's hands so there's kind of a Shiva effect - the carnal and the sublime to question what it is that people actually worship in modern western society -- and the bridge being a metaphor between those elements. The radiating effect I got by a trail-and-error of Illumination Effects - angle, brightness, etc Madonna's face was sourced from an ancient Babylonian [I think] statue fused onto her head, and I can't remember now which Pieta I grabbed. The original bridge photo was sliced and diced to accommodate the proportions and some of the figures were re-angled to draw attention up to the sky. I really got into smudge-brush with this one ... it compensates for a lot of rough edges 
The most fun I had was with the decorated jar in the Chinese collage, which is from the embossed selection ... I think it works just doing some of the pattern. The cloned faces of Gong Li I think work in the different sizes -- and only one of them substitutes a butterfly for her mouth. It was the colour balance of this one that took the most time.
I hope you like them! And thanks for asking. 
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| shoon |
Posted - 02/27/2007 : 02:43:00
How did you make those? Just curious really, only thing I make anything remotely artistic with is Photoshop. |
| GHcool |
Posted - 02/25/2007 : 00:42:41
quote:
Originally posted by Conan The Westy
My digital artworks were at their zenith when I was in preschool.
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| duh |
Posted - 02/24/2007 : 06:55:16
quote:
Originally posted by Conan The Westy
My digital artworks were at their zenith when I was in preschool.
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Originally posted by BaftaBabe
You may want to read my article in the current online edition of
Transition Tradition
which also features one of my digital collages. The link to Field of Vision in the article should be
this one, for another of my collages about modern China.
Oh dear, if I'm going to read and understand Beth's article, I'll have to focus real hard and attempt to think. That doesn't come easily for me.
But yes, it's art. (Did I use the correct version of i-t-s there? I always have to look that up.) If someone else, likely some hoity toity artsy schmartzy urban fancy-pants, says it isn't art, I don't give a damn.
Note to self: time to refill the prozac. |
| Conan The Westy |
Posted - 02/22/2007 : 12:03:10
My digital artworks were at their zenith when I was in preschool. |
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