madurobob
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Nice!
I'm a little slow at these things, but I think I'm starting to see a recurring theme...
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Nice!
I'm a little slow at these things, but I think I'm starting to see a recurring theme...
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Canis lupus baileyi.
SlackerBabbath
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That's really good Hummer, love the perspective.
Cheers.
Here's my take on a boating theme.
It was painted during a solo exhibition I did last summer, I actualy sat in the window of the place painting it, mainly for the light, but then noticed that I was getting a lot more visitors to my exhibition that way too.
asydhouse
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I tried posting a picture using the "insert image" thing, but it just shows a question mark. How can I post a picture? 
I just looked in the help menu, and it says you can't post pictures if you are on OS/X (Apple computer) using the Safari Browser!
Surely there must be a way!
I just looked in the help menu, and it says you can't post pictures if you are on OS/X (Apple computer) using the Safari Browser!
Surely there must be a way!
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asydhouse
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I can't even upload via the attachments thingy.
Oh well, here's a link you can follow to see one of mine:
http://asydhouse.deviantart.com/art/A-New-Day-255076487
Oh well, here's a link you can follow to see one of mine:
http://asydhouse.deviantart.com/art/A-New-Day-255076487
Slackerbabbath--
Thanks for the look into your studio! Painting looks a bit like Bruges, with the canals though the archictecture you depict looks more English. Maybe a picture of the Queen back there? Maybe not but British war planes, WWII variety. Incidentally, your portrait is terrific. Have you read Vaillant's, not sure how to spell that, The Tiger book, about the plight of the Siberian tigers up in the Amur area?
Here, maybe, if I can make this work is a second painting. The "perspective" both literal and not. But I see my paintings, at least this one has a kind of "screen" surface with perspective breaks into it. Can't get rid of the second copy.
Thanks for the look into your studio! Painting looks a bit like Bruges, with the canals though the archictecture you depict looks more English. Maybe a picture of the Queen back there? Maybe not but British war planes, WWII variety. Incidentally, your portrait is terrific. Have you read Vaillant's, not sure how to spell that, The Tiger book, about the plight of the Siberian tigers up in the Amur area?
Here, maybe, if I can make this work is a second painting. The "perspective" both literal and not. But I see my paintings, at least this one has a kind of "screen" surface with perspective breaks into it. Can't get rid of the second copy.
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Is that a sailing ship in the background Hummer?
SlackerBabbath
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Allow me.
Had a look at the rest of your stuff on deviantart and on your website too. Very nice. I know it's 'digital art', (which I find interestring but know next to nothing about) but is there a specific term for this particular style?
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It is English, infact it's a painting of a canal side pub called the 'Inn on the Warf' that's about 5 minutes walk away from my house. The canal is actualy the 'Leeds and Liverpool Canal'
Yes, it's titled 'Green Queen'
Someone told me a few years ago that if I wanted to paint portraits I should do some famous faces as examples of my work, so that people can easily judge how accurate my portraiture is, so I painted the Queen because she probably has one of the most famous faces in the world.
Yeah, that one's titled 'Bluebirds Over...' after the wartime Vera Lynn song.
It's a Spitfire (top) and a Hurricane with the white cliffs of Dover in the distance.
Thankyou. Portraiture is really what I specialise in.
No I'm afraid I haven't, is it good?
Really liking your art, looks like it's full of symbolism.
The lady in the water kinda reminds me of William Blake's 'Pity' or possibly John Everett Millais' 'Ophelia'. What sort of paint do you use?
asydhouse
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Thanks! (Both for posting it for me, and for your kind appreciation of my stuff).
As far as I know, there's no particular name for digitally manipulated photography. I call my stuff psychedelic art!
But the stills are just a byproduct of the video art, which is my real work.
If you are interested, I shall briefly describe my process: First I film some footage, then I load it onto the computer and import it into Apple's professional video editing software Final Cut Pro, apply the kaleidoscope filter that comes with FCP, and see what I've got. Then I select portions and link them with various transitions, manipulate the timing (usually slowing it down somewhat) and adding other filters such as the water droplet effect which you can cause to create an expanding ring of distortion like the lensing effect of a drop of water on the image, etc, and finally do some colour correction.
The footage from which A New Day was taken was filmed through our living room window on a frosty morning as the sun rose in December three years ago. You can see the frost, and the sun and shadow amongst the grass.
The kaleidoscope filter just takes one pie-slice wedge of the picture and fills the screen with that wedge repeated around the screen, flipped upside down above and below the original wedge so that the edges where the wedges meet match, and any movement is flowing into and out of the edges.
The thing is, if you pan or zoom while filming, all those edges are moving into and out of each other, and if you watch the centre point you see incredibly beautiful constantly changing spherical patterns emerging out of the centre (or being swallowed into it, depending if you are zooming in or out etc). The effect is like tripping on DMT! Also you see colours picked out in the wedge that might be lost in the full picture due to other stronger colours in other sections of the original picture: when I filmed a small bonfire in the garden at dusk I was amazed to see the subtle and multitudinous hues of all sorts of colours I'd not noticed while looking at the fire.
Video is just a succession of frames played at 25 frames per second (in the UK, in the States they use 30 fps), so really you are watching a rapid succession of changing photographs, so that each frame is unique (sometimes gradually changing from one to the next, sometimes rapidly). Sometimes as I'm watching I find particularly attractive and in focus sections that I search for a suitable frame to export as a still photo. But it's really the changing psychedelic visions that is my art.
I've only been doing this for 5 years. Prior to that I didn't have any equipment, but after getting a job in a bookshop I eventually saved up enough to buy an iMac and a video camcorder, and discovered all this fun creative stuff! (I've always been a poet, since that requires no money, but always wished I could do various ideas I've had over the years… and this stuff is a natural development of my poetic thought processes…. I had become frustrated with words as my medium, as I'd said all the conceptual emotional stuff I could say and was trying to express the ineffable… and now I do it visually).
I got made redundant straight after I got this equipment, so I was lucky to get it before. I then did a three year part time MA in fine art and photography, but since graduating I find that the fine art world is not interested in psychedelic beauty. I can't seem to get anyone to look at it. So I'm now trying to find a job!
PS I love your tigers! Also your name… sort of a play on Black Sabbath and Slack Baba combined? Slack Baba is a psytrance dj. Have you been to Goa?
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You guys are amazing!
Special mention to Slacker Babbath.
I dabble in painting and photography. Here's my Deviant Art gallery:
http://orphia.deviantart.com/gallery/
Special mention to Slacker Babbath.
I dabble in painting and photography. Here's my Deviant Art gallery:
http://orphia.deviantart.com/gallery/
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Absolutely fascinating. Cheers.
There's a coincidence, I've been doing my stuff for about 5 years too.
I've always been kinda arty, but I used to do cartoony, almost surreal stuff. Then when my daughter was born I kinda just stopped doing any kind of art for about 10 years because at first I just couldn't find the time and then I gradualy forgot about it, then about 5 years ago I got the bug again but decided to do something with a bit more realism to what I used to paint. After a year of painting pretty much nothing but landscapes I tried a portrait and found that I was pretty good at it, so I concentrated more on that.
I've been unemployed for a while too (health issues) so this is something that I'm currently trying to turn into a viable business.
Have you ever exhibited prints of the stills you created from your video art anywhere? I'm thinking that if you get a few prints done directly onto decent sized stretched canvas then galleries should take an interest in them. You could then use that to promote the video installations.
No, never been to Goa. The name actualy comes from a Black Sabbath tribute band that I used to be the singer for called 'Slack Babbath'.
asydhouse
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My pleasure! Glad you enjoyed it.
I am amazed! I thought you had been practicing for decades to have such skill! You should have no problem selling paintings like these you've shown us!
I'd like to, but so far I can't seem to get anyone to even look at prints. Also now I can't afford to make any more! I must admit I have been hoping to get into "fine art" "art world" galleries, so I guess I should just take a few prints round to local galleries that sell less "high brow" "fine art".
But also the single frame prints are not high enough resolution to print on canvas, I think they wouldn't look as sharp as on photographic paper. (HD video resolution is not as high as what you get from a stills camera). I actually have an acquaintance who is a high quality photographic printer, and I've done a few with him, but mostly my other "real" photography which is taken with a stills camera (just a point-and-shoot, but it gives decent results, and is higher resolution than video. Did you look at the Limited Editions page on my website?) I must get around to taking some to galleries, but that doesn't feed in to my video art except that both are done by me! However, I fell on our stairs at the beginning of December and broke my ankle, and I'm still laid up waiting for ligaments to heal, so absolutely everything is on hold for now.
Cool.
asydhouse
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You guys are amazing!
Special mention to Slacker Babbath.
I dabble in painting and photography. Here's my Deviant Art gallery:
http://orphia.deviantart.com/gallery/
Hi Orphia, I just got back from looking at your deviantArt gallery. I like it.
I left some comments on a few pieces.
Hi Orphia, I just got back from looking at your deviantArt gallery. I like it.
Thank you so much for your lovely comments! You absolutely made my day!
Plus, I've always loved your wonderful posts; now I see you are just as artistic visually.
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I can't help myself.
It's not my art, but that of my wife, but always too proud of her not to share
http://www.nicolecijs.com/
It's not my art, but that of my wife, but always too proud of her not to share
http://www.nicolecijs.com/
asydhouse
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