Dear all, I’m back online!
My last post here was in June, there’s a lot to catch up on. But I will update this over the next few weeks. Even though this has been offline I’ve still been documenting the process of my recent works which I look forward to sharing with you.
But for now, these are my views:
A drawing of feet in progress.
I got Gene to take some screen shots to show the development of taking a canvas image from photograph to a high quality digital image.
After I complete a painting, the first stage is to take several photographs. He then opens them up in the compositing program Nuke (used for motion pictures), here are some visuals so you can get an idea of the process:
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This part takes Gene about an hour for each
piece, he came up with this process himself and is often tweaking it as software develops.
Here is the final result:
‘Phia’
Amazing.
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It’s been taking a long time to get this one finished because I needed parts of it to be dry before I could work on it again. The above photo shows progress of the fourth and final layer of stripes on the top. It is now complete and is drying on my easel. Then my wonderful
man, Gene, will take a photo of it and translate it into a digital image for me.
I think this time I will take some shots to demonstrate what he does to make them look as close to the real thing, as it is quite a process. It’s taken years for Gene to develop this technique ( I didn’t ask him- he’s a perfectionist, I’m not complaining though!!) and it’s quite complex- I will probably never really understand what he does. But he does it and he does it well.
Lily Mae
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Last night I went to the Salon Session that Dr Sketchy‘s run here in Berlin. The model was a performer from Australia, La Viola Vixen.
When I arrived last night I quickly remembered how much I miss life drawing, I used to do it all the time when I was pregnant: PROOF.
I enjoyed the atmosphere at this session and I really hope to do it again! The Dr Sketchy’s sessions usually have a
performance and lots of photography, but to my joy there were no cameras and no one was permitted to take any photos, all that left were our drawings.
( As much as I love photography the immediacy and accessibility sometimes seem to overwhelm the human experience. Sometimes I’m pretty sure the photograph matters more than the actual experience- now I am deviating from the point of this blog post! )
The next session is in June: INFO
Lily Mae
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I thought I’d share some recent drawings from Berlin Domestic – they make me gush with pride.
Above is a drawing of a miniature tea set which I wrote about here: PORK CHOP
This is a drawing of my first house in Wales. Which is probably one of the nicest houses I have ever lived in.
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She has eyelashes now!
My friends have been telling me that my exhibition, Brutally Beautiful, was being advertised on the trains here. I don’t catch the trains much because I have Anja and the endless stairs prove quite the challenge with a pram, but a friend of mine took a snap of it the other day:
Thanks Toni!
New drawing:
Thank you so much to Nicole for sending me these!
Here’s a link to the digitalized version- you can read the interview with me and the other four featured artists: http://issuu.com/curvy/docs/curvy-eight/47
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