Good evening peoples!
AG Handmades here. The boss is away working his fingers to the bone in his studio, getting a lot of stuff ready for Christmas, so it falls to me to post up this entry today!
A few weeks back, Mo took himself off down to St Louis, camera in hand (Canon sx170is) and took some photos of the famous Arch from a building in the centre of town. As is his way, he then set to on his computer with some digital imaging software and had a good play around with them. For reference, the programs he used were: Adobe Streamline, Painter 4 Essentials, Micrografx Picture Publisher, and Corel Draw.
It never ceases to amaze me how he can take one simple picture, and turn it into so many different artworks with his skill, not just with paints but also with software. I wouldn't know where to start, but then that is why he paints and I crochet!
I am not sure what he did with this one, but from far away, it looks like St Louis in a snowstorm! Zoom in and it looks like a technical drawing of the same thing, with the buildings and the arch made of precisely measured squares and circles. Unrecognizable from close up, but definitely recognizable from far enough away.
These next four: hmm, I am not sure about these. The "green" based one to me looks slightly washed out. The second one is cool, but to me, there is too much empty space. Same with the third one.
I really like the fourth one, with its strong colors and solid blocks for backgrounds. Now that would look great on a big plain wall.
Again, art is often all in the eye of the beholder, so what do you guys think?
This next one reminds me of an oil painting. When you see it close up, the texture is very different from all the rest, and very interesting, almost as if the buildings are "melting" in the heat! I like it.
These next two are my favourites:
There is something almost psychadelic about them, space age, even. The sky reminds me of an Aurora Borealis and the colours on the buildings give the impression of metal reflecting that Aurora. Very nice indeed. I could certainly hang those on my walls.
This next one is like one of those photobooth pictures that you take on holiday pulling funny faces, but this is Mo playing around with colours and I love the results. You take one picture, apply different colour schemes to it, and this is what happens. Funky, huh? And they really do give the impression of them all being taken on different days, some colder or hotter than others, like four different seasons.
These last two are superb in my opinion. Just as the one above that looks like the buildings have metal facades reflecting the light, the color in these two is rich, strong, and deep. They draw your eye in to study them more closely. The first one is cleaner, and crisp; the last one seems to have movement, and more warmth. Both are just as striking.
So there you go... one picture, so many different results from playing around with imaging software.
Take a good look at all these pictures. Zoom in and out to get a feel of the textures, colors, and depth in them all. You've read my take on them, how about yours? I am sure Mo would love to hear your comments, and so would I.
On Mo's behalf,
AG Handmades :)
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