Monday, May 25, 2009

Whole lotta work


I'm past the first review process and it went better than I could have dreamed.
This course has really been fantastic, hugely stimulating and rewarding.
I am very pleased with my progress so far.
Ive put in 100% and I'm now feeling much more confident about my work and about my artistic future.

We made some poems last week as a creative thinking exercise.
I liked them so much I thought I would put my favourite one here, it is based on the poetry of Guillevic.

A Circle

Complete within myself
But not complacent
I am all
And I am nothing

I participated in a photo shoot using a model and light projections last Thursday.
It was exciting watching the play of light and trying to capture pictures in the dimly lit conditions.
I fired off lots of shots not really knowing if I would get any results.
I was using camera RAW which was fortunate because when I viewed them later the images were very dark.
However, after processing I found I had some stunning results.
Here is one which I have treated in Painter and Photoshop.
I think it's very evocative. The colouring and attitude of the pose puts me in mind of Van Gogh.