today i went to a shopping center near the beach and took a shot of a manikin wearing a net dress. i liked the way the colored waves divide the dress in three parts.
later, when i looked at your improved painting i immediately saw the connection between the two: your painting is also divided horizontally by the different colored glazes you added.
so after some erasing and blending i designed a new dress based on your painting. wow! much better and more interesting and fashionable than the original, don't you think?
the second painting reminds me of the series of portraits you made, based on blind-contour drawing. would love to see you create a face out of this one :-)
and here's what i did with the fern.....
saved it to my iphone and pulled it through enlight (an iphone-only app) a couple of times
then i squared it and added a buddha cut out of another shot i took at the beach this morning
and voila......
the secret life of plants
so now both you and i know how i came up with this title :-)
Helga, these are great makeovers...the dress dye job and the leaf coloration. I love the colors in the leaf and especially the transition to more intense colors that look like they are coming from another photo layer with texture. Is that true? And, of course the buddha cutout is so wonderful holding a banner with the leaf design. Maybe I should make the buddha the object of one of my blind contour drawings and paintings. Love the title of that photo, too. Your photo titles are always perfect and, often, they give the viewer a different perspective as if with a verbal prompt from the artist or another bystander.
ReplyDeleteI just took another look at the dyed dress photo and realized that you used my other painting as a photo layer to give that crocheted cotton dress its vibrant color. I read your text and understood you to mean that you took the colors from the painting to apply to the dress photo. I like the painting dressed up that way better than on my wood panel.
As always, i think we may be having too much fun!