Photo experiment

Posted on January 10, 2022 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Art, experience, Experiment, Hubby, Life, Photo, Photographer, Reflection, thoughtful, Youth2 Comments

Hubby did this in the 1980’s. It’s still up on the stairs. I don’t know how he did it. Is it a camera on a bench looking up to a lamp overhead and the hands interposed between the two? Or perhaps it’s a mirror on the wall with a tipped up lamp? I don’t even know if they are his hands, maybe he had someone place them in shot? It could be a bowl of water with a light reflected in it….

Do you know I’ve never asked him. Its just a dusty, fading photo. But it’s part of him, part of his idea of life, it expresses something about a younger person. Someone still in there.

Dragon hide

Posted on January 7, 2022 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Dragon, Experiment, Fire, Fun, Hide, Scales, Sketching, Skin, smaug, the Hobbit, ThinkingLeave a comment

What does a dragon need to stay safe? If you read The Hobbit, Smaug the dragon was killed by an arrow that pierced a soft area in his skin under his arm. Dragons have to have a strong skin..

So what would it look like? I’ve been experimenting with how big the scales would be. I guess they would have to be like an alligator or crocodile skin, rather than a lizard or snake whose scales seem smaller or softer. The dragon would need fire retardant scales to prevent charring or burning either around its mouth when it is fire breathing or on the rest of its body. Maybe male dragons duel in short fights, if they were to attack each others wings they would need to be strong. Dragons wings always look vulnerable. The skin is stretched between bony fingers. Surely that could easily be holed if it were not well maintained. Lots to consider.

Dragon Eye fun

Posted on December 17, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Colours, dragon eye, Drawing, Experiment, expression, Fun, Glitter glue, Pattern, reversal of colour, SketchingLeave a comment

Yes it’s another experiment. I keep doing them. I’m building up evidence for my college course of my skills. I hope it will be OK. This one is a reversal of colour from the original green and red drawing. It’s also had more pattern added to it….

Strange eyes

Posted on October 25, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Edgar Allen Poe, Experiment, Eyes, Face, half, Life, Mirrored, Photo, Weird2 Comments

According to scientific research symmetrical features are supposed to make people more handsome or pretty.

As an experiment I took a photo of someone’s eye then mirrored it. I tried to get the right width for the bridge of the nose. I have to say this looks strange. He does have uneven eyes in reality, with one obviously higher than the other.

The only other example of this I have seen was with a photo of Edgar Allen Poe. He has a very unsymmetric face and as with this experiment if you mirror the opposite sides the faces that result are truly weird, at least to me.

Dragon scales

Posted on October 15, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, College, Designs, Dragon scales, Drawing, Duplicated, Experiment, Fun, Life, Nail polish, Sketching, Texture2 Comments

Experimenting again with dragon ideas. This one is made up of a drawing coloured in with different nail varnishes and then duplicated and mirrored after adding texture digitally. The blurred section had the words ‘dragon scales’ written on it but I decided to blur that out.

Each of these experiments will be added to a portfolio of images that will go towards my final major project for college.

Adding a ‘filter’

Posted on September 8, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, Experiment, Face, Filter, Fun, Playing, real life filter, Sketch, SketchingLeave a comment

Using plastic wrap as a type of filter….

If you don’t have an app to add a filter why not use something real instead? Here I used some crumpled plastic wrapping paper to put over the top of my abstract drawing of a face. It almost looks like the lines are printed on the plastic. Remember, experiment, have fun!

Dusty hands

Posted on September 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged 1970's, Cobwebs, Dust, Experiment, Hands, Light, old photo, Photo, ShadowsLeave a comment

I saw this and had to take photo of it. Its tucked in a corner and I’m afraid the dust and cobwebs had descended on it. It’s a photo experiment of my hubbies hands from the 1970’s? Funny what you find when you are rummaging in and around things. I know I’ve got too much ‘stuff’.

Pushing the envelope

Posted on August 13, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Design, Drawing, Experiment, Fun, Learning, Playing, pushing buttons, SketchingLeave a comment

Try drawing then putting that through as many filters as you can. Layering one idea over another, changing colours, tones, putting in lighting effects. Always try and do something new, different. Learn as you experiment. Know how you can change things.

Green figure?

Posted on July 31, 2021August 1, 2021 Posted in UncategorizedTagged Alien, Art, Experiment, Filters, Green, Life, Mirrored, Photo, Photodirector, Texture, TreesLeave a comment

I see an alien, green figure in this landscape. By playing with filters you can get surreal effects. I think this had a feeling of ancient topiary. I used a texture and mirroring filter to change it and make it more interesting I hope.

Transformation

Posted on July 16, 2021 Posted in Sketching, UncategorizedTagged Art, Drawing, everyday object or scene, Experiment, Pattern, Sketching, technique, WorkshopLeave a comment

First take an everyday object or scene. Then redraw it but change it. That’s what I’ve done here. Coming up with different ideas in twenty minutes. So I give you a lighthouse, graffiti torch, a torch to see fingerprints (which might be leaking acid) and changing between straight lines and curves. Fun workshop. I’m going to work more on lines and shading.

Mallaband-Brown

Tag: Experiment