I think this is only one geography, but it is likely to be the first of a series, so it gets the plural. This is mostly acrylic ink on mixedmedia stock with some watercolor washes.
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Monthly Archives: April 2015
Entity 5
Diluted acrylic ink applied on mixedmedia paper with a Japanese shodo brush.
Entity 3
Very much the same process that I used for Entity 1 just below. Ink strokes with some splatter on a background image imported later during the post-processing phase in Lightroom and Photoshop.
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Entity 1
This is one of the set of ink washes and splatters I created a few evenings ago (see previous posts). This one is a bit different in that I used a different background image. In the previous post (Madness Encroaches), the background of ink washes was part of the original work. For this one, I used a photo I took of clouds in the early evening.
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Madness Encroaches
I really like how this one came out. It is a photo of ink washes and then a big splatter applied to paper stock that had some brown in it. I used two studio lights with different temperatures to illuminate it for my camera. The result is that there was a lot of different color in the image I could work with.
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Emerge
Diluted ink on mixedmedia
Dialogue 1
Diluted acrylic ink on heavy paper.
Vibe 10
This piece is simple, but there were several distinct steps behind its creation. First I created the line with ink and a folded ruling pen, much like several other pieces. I have been reasonably happy with this process, but the lines themselves have been a bit grungy, in part because of the texture in the paper I have been using. This is a neat effect, but I also think it takes away from the smooth curves of the line. For this one, I tried something else. After drawing the line and taking a photo of it, I then used Shape, which is an Adobe application for the iPhone (free). Shape basically takes lines, simplifies them and creates vector shapes. So it smoothed out the lines considerably. To get it into my phone, I just took a photo of my monitor. Then I emailed it to myself (as a jpeg) and opened it in Photoshop. From that point, it was easy to select the line, fill it with black, and then put in a gradient background. Here’s the final result.
Curvature 1
Another minimalist piece. The marks I make doing pieces like this are partly intended, especially at the beginning, but then quickly turn into something that takes its own course.
Topographical
Mixed media in every sense of the term. I used various items to create the various shapes and patterns. You can also see ink strokes in there as well as narrower lines created by a very sharp ink pen. The pigment is watercolor on heavy watercolor paper. I’m calling it “topographical” because it resembles a photo of the earth from an airplane.
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