Lots of pictures
More pictures, and I put together a gallery for all of them.
This inkblot idea turned out to be quite an inspiration, but not how I expected. I mean, I only did one inkblot. The idea it gave me was just the technique of copying and mirroring a smaller, half or one quarter picture. Symmetry, easy and perfect! I cranked this baby out in 5 minutes. Really.
Then I decided to do something with lines.
As I do these pictures, I've always saved off "elements" of each, thinking I might like to use them again as parts of future pictures. The interesting background, or a shape I made, but I ended up never coming back to use them again. So instead, this time I ran with the current idea. Overlaying the copies of the lines.
Then I went nuts with complexity.
Ansel Adams thought the art of what he did was not in composing the pictures he took, but in developing them. He'd develop his pictures with all kinds of funky, surreal colors, and that was where he thought his art was. He thought of his negatives as templates future darkroom artists could use to create their own work with. So it's ironic that Ansel Adams' art is now almost universally appreciated in black and white, and for its composition. I think of this a lot as I do these, because I usually do them entirely in black and white and add the colors last. And of course it'd be ridiculously easy to pull any of them up again and change the colors all around if I felt so inclined.
Well I hope you enjoyed that little anecdote, because now I've completely forgotten where I was going with that... ;-)
