"Camouflage" - Jelaine Faunce - 6" x 6" - oil on hardboard panel
"Dice" - M Collier - 6" x 6" - oil on hardboard panel
Coming in JUST under the wire here for February's Artist Challenge. M and I both departed from our normal course, trying imagery that was not typical for either of us.
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I must be jonesing for a trip to Target. At least that's what I decided after I'd finished my painting. I wanted to try something that was dominantly one color with the subject kind of mysteriously emerging from it. Except that red isn't exactly mysterious. Anyway, I created a little page with a red background and white polka dots in Illustrator that were the same size as the white dots on my single die. Then I photographed the die on the patterned print under bright sunlight. Ooooh. Ahhhhh. I had a whole "Where's Waldo" theme going on in my head.
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I don't know if I'll attempt to do something like this again, but I will say that I'm glad I stepped out of my comfort zone and gave it a shot. Always good to try new things. Never hurts.
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Oh, and in case you were wondering, Otto was unable to contribute to this Challenge. He left on a two week spiritual hike in the Himalaya's early this month and got eaten by a Yeti. True story.
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I must be jonesing for a trip to Target. At least that's what I decided after I'd finished my painting. I wanted to try something that was dominantly one color with the subject kind of mysteriously emerging from it. Except that red isn't exactly mysterious. Anyway, I created a little page with a red background and white polka dots in Illustrator that were the same size as the white dots on my single die. Then I photographed the die on the patterned print under bright sunlight. Ooooh. Ahhhhh. I had a whole "Where's Waldo" theme going on in my head.
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I don't know if I'll attempt to do something like this again, but I will say that I'm glad I stepped out of my comfort zone and gave it a shot. Always good to try new things. Never hurts.
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Oh, and in case you were wondering, Otto was unable to contribute to this Challenge. He left on a two week spiritual hike in the Himalaya's early this month and got eaten by a Yeti. True story.
7 comments:
aaahhh so the red die was your choice. I love how you've captured that smooth glassy finish to the dice.
Very effective and clever.
Both yours and M's paintings are sensational. Words like dynamic, fabulous, come to mind. These are paintings one cannot ignore. You have both done wonderful work with paintings!
Ooooh. Ahhhhh. Is right. You never cease to amaze!
So fun, these two paintings!
What really happened to Otto? I know he couldn't have been eaten by a Yeti, because they are all nearby at the Kokanee brewery in Creston, B.C.
Wonderful, both of them. I laughed at your Target comment! Talent AND whit!
Well done!
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