Wave Of The Sun

This WAS my second attempt at doing a scratch assignment...
Finally , the night before class I figured out the glitch I had run into the first night I tried to post it. It is nothing to brag about-but I am relieved that I have managed to make it go where I wanted. SO MUCH TO LEARN! But I am excited about the possibilities. I have an idea to work on a piece that makes it look like batik art. And Stephanie suggested I could also take a photo of a piece of fabric and have that be the background!! Now getting my blog page to look a little more interesting is another project I'd love to get around to. Time to focus on some other assignments!

Pulled sunrays

Well, with a LOT of help from my new friend Stephanie, I managed to post this cut and paste exercise. I learned a lot about the importance of keeping track of the different layers I am working on. I have spent way too long in this lab!!!

Wonky

I couldn't resist copying this one from David Winston's blog as well. Besides it takes a lot of repetiton for me to remember the order of commands to accomplish this task that it seems all my peers at school have been doing for years recreationally... David doesn't explain what we are looking at, but he says it is a motor home park, and I am assuming we are looking at the reflections on an airstream. I am amused by seeing the reflection of the photographer in the photo as well! I especialy enjoy the play of design and color on the blue van, with its repeat patterns of red and yellow against the blue. Reminds me of FIMO creations! I suppose this could have a historical perspective, in the fact of all the chrome on the airstream, and also the blue vans rich colors.

Illusions of light

First I love the yummy colors! And I love the illusion that the light created. This was taken by my friend David Winston, which I copied from his blog: winstonunleashed.blogspot.com (He also has a studio in Ashland, which is open to the public)He explains that it was the slats in a fence that were letting the shafts of light through , that created the illusion of stripes. To relate it to comments from our DMF assignment, I am noticing that striking composition is always appealing to me, as is the quality of colors...and most of all the feeling of light being expressed. the "list" would be: front left side of a VWbug, brilliant magenta color, headlight,stripes of light,part of front tire. The close up selection for framing this photo, rather than the whole bug, really drew me in. It took me a moment to realize what the stripes I was looking at were. I find that to be fun.