To look beyond the surface...to explore new avenues...follow a different path...
I've been pretty surprised by my efforts...
discovering a few skills and abilities that I didn't know I had...or had merely forgotten...
Taking a different approach...not relying on the tried and true...
In my year-long Photoshop artistry class, AWAKE, I have surprised myself by taking photos of images that normally would not interest me...and then editing them in new and different ways...leading to an end result that I liked more than I thought possible...and revealing an insight that broke free from my standard artistic view...
The assignment was to take several photos of an object, each from a different angle...I merged this assignment task with another assignment, which was to focus on how we saw our artistic life...as I took my morning walk, I was struck by the row upon row of boxes of this apartment building...and how I would hate to live in one of those boxes...as I combined two of the views of the building, I struggled with how to make each stand out yet blend together...exploring some of the blend modes in Photoshop that I never use (hard light for example) yielded the effect I wanted...masking, blending, and layering helped to bring the entire composition together.
going off in a different direction...sometimes the best way to go...
joining the group over at kim klassen's Friday Finds...where my find is the exhilaration of taking new trails and leaving the path behind...
and speaking of new trails...did you read about that I'm taking the Art Party on the road...to Portland, OR...
want to know more? get all the details here...
