posted by ttractor @ 12:06 AM
jolie laide
I started this when I lived in Brooklyn and struggled for grace in a city that grants moments of beauty and ugliness breathtakingly close to one another. Now I live in a place where things are a different kind of ugly and the beauty is pedestrian. I struggle with that.
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this particular corner (of a dumpster?!?) - just keeps on giving
what an electric blue - against stark white and dull greengrey ... such an interesting palette
the JacksonPollock-like semi-deliberate, semi-fortuitous splatter
loveitloveit
just had an idea ...
I have seen real photographic images blown up and presented on canvas (at the Daily Grind Coffeeshop - Troy, NY)
... and this was not Chuck Close, it was photography
what do you think about that medium for presenting your work -Michelangelo?
so funny! I was just looking at the rasterbater today! It sort of Chuck Close-ifies any image you feed it. Only prob is that it will only do it in B&W.
I am very interested in printing on canvas. There is a very simple technique using a xylene pen that will transfer the ink from a color copy onto fabric, but the image is reversed. So either I would be looking at stuff backwards when it is done (which I guess is ok, I just can't imagine it beforehand) or Photoshopping it to flip the image over (and I don't even know if that can be done).
You should know, of course, that none of the images here are protected by anything other that ethics. You are welcome to download and use for your personal enjoyment.
Oh I'm just full of silly ideas ...
I would never think of downloading or manipulating your work even for personal uses - I have too much respect for it
I'm honored to be privy to it at all
... and I have a burgeoning (helped along by your vision) desire to create a unique vocabulary of images of my own
I'm just onboard to "hear" you - remember?
You can actually use wintergreen oil to transfer if you wish to avoid the toxicity of xylene. I have never tried it on canvas, but it works amazingly well on paper and fine-weave cloth.
thanks dag and 4"! now, where did I put that wintergreen tree?
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