Omen -Photoshop

'Omen'

Was fiddiling around with my sketchbook image in photoshop, and somehow managed to get it to do what I wanted. I tidied it up a bit more and added a black background.. Worked out pretty good.

Omen- etching

'Omen'

This is an etching that I did yesterday. It came out better than I thought. I added alot of weight to my lines and was worried they were to open for the ink to sit, but it seems to be fine. The only thing is there are one or two scratches and I am not sure if it adds to it or not....
This dosent really have anything to do with my current project, but it is nice to do something different, maybe I can tie it in somehow...
Im not sure I will hand colour these or do an aquatint, maybe I will aquatint another one on a seperate plate....
The image below has been taken from my sketchbook, I tweaked it in photoshop just to tidy up the binding line and such... I almost prefer the sketchbook image.




'Omen, -sketchbook'

Andrew Wyeth

'Christina's World'

Probably one of my favorite paintings.......

"In the portraits of that house, the windows are eyes or pieces of the soul, almost. To me, each window is a different part of Christina's life."

-Andrew Wyeth

Odilon Redon

"Nature also requires us to pursue the gifts she has bestowed on us. Mine have led me into the world of dreams; I have allowed the torments of the imagination and the surprises that it came up with beneath my pen to flow over me; but I have led and guided them, these surprises, according to artistic laws, for the sole purpose of using a spontaneous stimulus to summon up in the beholder- to its- the uncertainty that lies at the extreme ends of thought."

 -Odilon Redon

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Jeff Desom

Two videos by Jeff Desom, I really liked the imagery, and the simplicity of the piano.

America in Colour

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Some pictures of old barns and such that I took with my Diana F+ camera over the summer while in America. I used lomography colour film.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Natalya Lobanova

I found another artists blog by Natalya Lobanova. Simple, personal little works to make you smile. If I presented something like this in college I don't think it would go down well, but she gets away with it so that's something I suppose.