Yep, it's this time of the year again! Tiny snow flakes are falling down, but they disappear as they touch the ground. In NYC the big black guys called me snow flake. I think it was meant as an insult. The fact that each and every one of them is unique and that they exist for a flicker of a moment is very poetic to me. In my mini-project I'm working on right now I've incorporated snowflakes. The result will be shown in December.
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I haven't been practicing what I learnt in the photo course some time ago, shame on me! But here is an intent to adjust the white balance. You know when you take a photo of something in backlight and the thing you wanted to capture comes out way too dark? Well, then you can adjust the white balance to make it lighter. This works on a regular compact camera too. At least on the Canon I have. BEFORE: A globe standing in the window at home. The only thing you can see is a black silhouette. After increasing the white balance quite a lot, I got this instead. I haven't changed any other settings.
Quite a difference huh? At least you can see the globe now. These little tricks are so valuable. Earlier I've been using the trial and error method pushing every single button on the camera not understanding what's wrong. One of the best deep house songs I think I haven't posted yet. (The best part starts at about 2,35 min). There is a longer version of the song and I really recommend it if you have the patience to listen for almost 8 min. Imagine a glass of wine watching the sunset while you listen to this song. <3 I decided to do a quick sketch of one of my favorites; Javier Bardem (he's been a Bond villain, married to Penelope Cruz etc). Self-confidence and being humble beat a perfect nose or a six-pack any given time and Javier is one of the most attractive famous people I know. I just made a rough sketch with a pen and charcoal. As you know I prefer color but that takes longer time. For more elaborated drawings of celebrities, I'd recommend "London artist" on Instagram - he's amazing! The host this week is www.nollfemnolltva.blogg.se.
On my way to Västerås, and this is what I am about to read; A new earth by Eckhart Tolle. I've heard a lot about him so let's see if he is as good as the rumor says :)
This is one of the most interesting conversations in the movie Vicky, Cristina, Barcelona. Intriguing and sad at the same time. Vicky (American girl on holidays in Spain) is asking the questions, Juan Antonio (a free-spirited artist) is answering. Yes, after thousands of years of civilization, the human race still hasn't learnt to love.
The word "man" has various significations in Swedish; guy, horse mane, and it is also a genderless pronoun. So as you can see, this week's challenge has endless of possibilities. I don't have a clear vision yet, but it is always good to start thinking about the challenge a couple of days in advance. On Thursday you'll see the result as usual.
(Lily and I in the picture) *Painting and colors really make me happy. Not in a superficial way, it awakens something inside me. *The best part isn't looking at the finished product, but the glimpses when you are in the middle of the WIP and see the potential of what the painting might become. It is like looking at a flower that is about to blossom or a diamond in the rough. (The end result in itself is often quite disappointing. I'm never fully satisfied with what it looks like.) *If no-one ever saw my work, I would still paint. Turner was really skilled at painting buildings, but he has been widely criticized for his people and their anatomy. In reality, he knew well how to paint people and he did live drawing all his life, but he didn’t seem to put much effort and focus on them in his paintings. Just look at this picture. Do you see the odd proportions of that woman's face? In England, the most collected painter was Italian Canaletto and he had a great influence on Turner. As a homenage, Turner painted Canaletto into this painting of Venice (look at the guy to the left with the easel in the picture below). Turner went three times to Venice and after Italy his palette changed as he added more light colors and reflections. “The sun is my God” came to be his mantra and he tried to capture the sun light in different ways in his paintings. In many of his paintings, you can see the temperature and the time of the day just by looking at the sky. Below you see a painting of Germany. One of the group members from the guided tour was from this specific place in Germany and he told the rest of the group that the mountains in the background don’t exist. Also, the castle is and was in ruins at the time Turner lived. Artistic freedom I’d say :) Turner was very tight with his money even though be became a very wealthy man. It was the various engravings of his landscape paintings that made him rich. With the money he earned, he bought back some of his favorite paintings he had sold earlier in his career. One of them was the painting below; Frosted morning from 1813. A nice detail is the little girl holding her father's pray around her neck. Yet again, look at the disproportions of her face. People who have seen Turner work, says he worked on various paintings at a time and he went with the brush charged with a specific color from one painting to the next. I'd love to have seen that!
You always see the end result of what artists create, which is great but not enough. Especially since it takes months of work to finish just one piece. Think about how much more you would understand of the painting if you could see the process behind it. Also, the process is something beautiful in itself, don't you think? Shaping, forming, changing, evolving...It is not only the destination but the journey that matters! |
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