Image Artistry

Friday, 8 July 2016

More Collage Papers

Spent today doing more magazine collage papers, altering them with paint this time. Took a photo of a collection of them and did a quick manipulation on the iPad using this and a photo of a tree and bird I had.

This was the original group of papers that I photographed:

I cropped this and went into iColorama applied Vibrancy, High, Simplify and Flat. Here are two versions.

I then went into Union and used the last one as a background, the former one as a foreground and I added my black and white tree and bird silhouette as a mask. I then added a moon. After a bit more playing around in iColorama I produced these three versions:

This last one I tuned up a bit in Repix.

Sunday, 3 July 2016

Collage Course

I'm doing an online collage course the next couple of weeks with Laura Lein-Svencner and am enjoying it immensely. We started making some of our initial magazine collage papers this week and I couldn't resist photographing the papers and blending three of them together. Here are a couple of the results:

Saturday, 7 May 2016

Inspired by Jean-Michel Basquiat

Now I have to tell you that Jean-Michel Basquiat is not my favourite artist but it's interesting how one can still get a feeling for an artist's approach and find one's own interpretation of their style. I signed up for Creative Jumpstart 2016 to see if I could get inspiration for my iPad photo art even though the examples were all done with paint and paper. 25 multimedia artists give10 minute videos of their intepretation of their chosen famous artist (5 famous artists in all).

I watched all 5 videos covering Basquiat but started with Birgit Koopsen's approach and took it from there. Under normal circumstances I wouldn't have gone on to add the scribbles etc but it was quite cathartic. I'm not mad about the result but as part of the process I did come up with another photo which I prefer which is the second one on this post.

Apps Used: SketchClub and iColorama