Could the picture below have been taken during the day in golden sunshine? Was it taken in ambient night lighting? Could my camera have taken liberties with the coloration of this scene? I did not make any adjustments before or after I snapped the shutter, and yet the time of day is ambiguous. I actually […]
The point of my study today was to darken and lighted a pigment with blacks and whites to change its shading and perhaps generate a three-dimensional effect. In the figure to the left, I made a transition from light blue (blue + white) to very dark blue (blue + black). From the darkest blue, I […]
I wanted to take advantage of the rough texture of the paper in today’s study. The first arc was the blue streak that began with a dense color that came from a loaded brush and ended with a dry brush that only colored the peaks of the textured paper. I used the same technique with […]
This shot shows maximal contrast to the speed bump bathed in the yellow light of parking lot night time (see Yellow Light at Night). The colors are bold and have no discernible color cast. Perhaps there is an element of reflected blue from the sky, but I don’t notice it. Leonardo daVinci would have noticed […]
The ‘bump’ part of the portion of the speed bump pictured below is flattened out by my vantage point directly above. I am looking forward to returning to this scene when the yellow ambient light shines at night. Will keep you posted.
Red and green are opposites. They inhabit opposite sides of the page in the composition below. The jagged edge of the blue-tipped green area oppose the gentle curve of the red spiral. They are both bathed in a field of yellow. I like this design even though it contains opposites – probably due to the […]
This parking lot photo reminded me of the condition that our country is in. Grim…
This thing was probably tearing up a parking lot…
I could not avoid the yellow light. It was beaming from a pole directly above my subject, that being a speed bump and a red curb. Photo editing can do wonders for color correction, but the uncorrected photo below is the way I remember the scene. Everything glowed with yellow.
Wavy brush strokes with a fan brush organized themselves in concentric arcs. The elegant spiral of the nautilus is nowhere to be seen. This may have been the deciding evolutionary factor that made the snail pictured below, a killer. Its form does not indicate function; it has to fight for every morsel. It’s disposition is […]
