Photomerge Using Pre-1900s Photographs

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Untitled from Natalie Reed on Vimeo.

This is an abstract sculpture I made for my 3-D Process class. It is carved from a plaster block, molded by pouring the plaster into an orange juice carton.  I used a hammer and chisel as well as a lot of different sized rasps and files. The last photo in this post shows a five-part composition assignment for my 2-D Process course last semester. I morphed drawings of a Sophocles bust that I got in Greece when I was nine. I originally was going to combine a few of the images into a 3-D form, but once I started carving I strayed quite dramatically, but I think comparing the two works is interesting and brings out a figural aspect to the otherwise abstract form of the sculpture.

 

 

Did these on the tablet. Lots of little swoopy lines and then I morphed them further in illustrator. The top picture is something I'm going to incorporate into a collaborative piece with my peers. It is of a city scape and we want to look beyond objects and create things inside of them, hidden objects, textures, etc. We also want to somehow involve hands so I used some scans of my hands to create some of the patterns. I am going to use that piece to fill the bark of a tree. And the last one I don't even know... it's a little crazy.

Artist Nádia Duvall

 

 

 


Putting together this blog made me notice that I really love all of these amorphous ethereal shapes. These just look genius to me. The artist is Nádia Duvall. She experiments with dipping films into ink and then working with the textures. She calls this a "second skin" process. It's pretty cool when you think about every object that exists in life having this outer layer wrapped over it. When you draw you have to think about constructing what the outer layer of an object would look like based on its general structure. It is interesting to work backwards from that. Check it out here or here.

March 28, 2012

These first two images are in progress. I'm learning how to use illustrator. I used a wacom tablet. The top colored section is the general direction I want to go in with it but I might switch around the fills a bit. .I feel pretty efficient with time when I draw on the tablet. Quite the opposite of me normally.

Then this image above is a finished project for my Digital Class that was done in illustrator. I was still able to include folds in the shirt as is my favorite part when I paint with oils. It was pretty cool to feel like I could be more adventurous on the computer because I could always undo it. Certainly it won't replace my normal drawing but I'm glad that I have this now too.