I have been working from photographs for a long time, this is something I never did in the analogue years. Digital technology has opened up so many opportunities for artists, especially in post production (is this getting too nerdy?). I have been photographing in RAW format for a long time and processing the photos in Photoshop. The reason for this blog is at the end of yesterdays painting session I thought my solution for unifying the sky was interesting yet not fully resolved. What I did today was to work through a solution for it without having to go around in circles, sacrificing what I had already achieved. It only took 20 minutes. Below is the process I used in Photoshop, creating a ‘mask’ under which I put a photo of some clouds I had taken. It gives an indication for a solution, mostly based around an increase in lighting contrasts and form.
MASK
CLOUDS
FINISHED IDEA
YESTERDAYS PAINTING, DAY 4