Ube! Get it? Shepard Fairey? It made me chuckle…lol…still does. Ube is a purple sweet potato if you weren’t aware, and it kicked off the second month of this daily project.
I’m a big comic book fan, used to be a collector, but sequential art in general and trying to tell a story. Scott McCloud has several books that expanded my consciousness when I read them. How to try to tell a story through images non-sequentially. Here are a bunch of images and the story differs depending on the order you view them.
It also blew my mind the first time I heard about the persistence of vision and how a film or movie is a collection of still images strung together and our brain strings them together to create motion.
The same thing with comicbooks/sequential art, the pacing of the story and images create a forward motion as you move through the story and that stuff happens in the white space as you go from panel to panel.
You may not consciously realize it, until you do…lol…some small concepts can be mind expanding. At least they have been for me.
June continued, as is usual, to be experimental. Letting my mind wander and focus on something and then build on it. I developed ‘FLARGH’ for somewhere, possibly borrowing from Peanuts and Charlie Brown screaming it when Lucy pulled the football away.
But, it gave me a ‘zero-point’ to come back to on days my brain was mushy and did not want to readily give me anything…lol…and it gave me an excuse to play with typography and typefaces more, to try and create something interesting.
I’m also interested in depth, space, and overlap. When you look at a 2D surface we imply, through something like overlap, that something is in front off another, so that implies depth. But, how deep is what you’re looking at?
I’ve seen those sculptures that make use of that. You look at them one way and they look like one thing, then you move and they shift into something else. The hanging ones that have things in a specific spot so you see the image from a certain perspective, otherwise it’s something else. Even the one that are a mix of items and its the shadow that shows you the image.
That stuff blows my mind. Just from the technical aspect alone. Sheesh.
This month was playing with a series, creating one and playing with color theory and unified palettes found in Adobe Illustrator and how color can change the feel of the same composition and it can also give a sense of movement.
There’s a set of 5 figurative pieces where I play with color and position. Treating the composition like a comicbook or film frame and depending on the order you look at them in it changes the narrative.
I also like bold and graphic with shapes as well as colors. A fan of pop art and Roy Lichtenstein and the use of graphic imagery. A single image presented can be strong and sculptural with colors that pop and the addition of halftone or ben day dots give a greater artistic interest I think.
Some of these images can be found in the store.
