This was the first month I started naming my projects. I know, it may not seem like a big deal, but it helped me focus and stay cohesive through the month, with a few exceptions, now that I look back…lol…
I’ve had a small obsession with abstraction for as long as I can remember. Jackson Pollack has me in awe with the scale of his work. The intention behind a work, thoughtfulness and intent, go a long way to give a piece depth. At least in my opinion.
Art History had me bored until I made the connection in a class one day that, in the timeline, one art ‘movement’ is typically a response to what came before it.
That, usually, the pendulum swings back and forth with people creating a call and response, so you can see watch the conversation taking place. I found that interesting.
I fell in love with the vector format the first time I encountered it. One the one hand you’re essentially creating art based on math (and in a different way than fractals), but the limitless possibilities thrilled me. Being able to design something at the size of a postage stamp if you want to and then being able to scale it up beyond the heavens, oh mama.
The one thing digital has never been able to adequately replicate when it comes to traditional art are the techniques to create splats, splatters, flings, drips. A work around as been to create your own traditionally on a sold background then photograph them and take the images into a program like Photoshop, select the background color, create a path, then save the path out and bring it into a vector program like Illustrator. You can then save it as a brush or symbol and proceed to design your abstract composition.
This is the gist behind rgbStatic, the incoherent color and images and just ‘blah’ as I call it in my brain as I try to figure out what I’m going to work on. The exploration of designing assets and composing abstract vector images and triptyches…lol…
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