tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-17510024369192477972009-06-29T14:36:04.938-07:00Digital art sketchbook by artist Bruce Bayard<br />with comments about creating each image.babayardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13123852290597835858noreply@blogger.comBlogger47125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-1968817382751356022009-03-23T22:42:00.000-07:002009-03-23T23:44:54.927-07:00

#439Source material: Ashland clouds, globe, subsurface logIt has been a long dry spell since my last post. Creatively, I just ran out of juice and had to take a break. This sequence of images is in preparation for a larger work to be completed for the "Shifting Patterns" program through the Jefferson Nature Center.#438Source material: Ashland clouds, globe, subsurface logThese images are a visual

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#433Source material: Workbench, eyechartQuite a while ago, in fact soon after I started doing my work digitally, I conceived of a series of eyecharts with eye-popping hues, but didn’t think the ink sets of the time could get that intense. More lately, though, there has been no trouble printing fully saturated color, so I am reviving the concept and expect to do quite a few more like this.See all

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#428Source material: WorkbenchThis is a concept I came up with as part of the image that I am developing for the Oregon Sesquicentennial exhibit coming up soon. I wanted to try it out small first and see that it has exactly the sort of perceptual ambiguity I am looking for...

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#421Source material: Redwoods, Japanese cloud patternFurther down, you’ll see that adding pink to abstract images is not much of a problem, but getting an abundance of pink to work in representational images is a bit trickier. Here, the effect is kept subtle.#420Source material: Ashland cloudsWhile pink in clouds might seem natural, I’ve never been a big fan of gaudy sunsets. Instead, I tried out

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#413Source material: Silk jacket, eye chart symbolsContinuing the pink color palette, I came across this photo, which I've used before, but here pushed the pink issue a little bit more.#412Source material: Barn siding, targetsThe more I think about this one, the more it scares me.

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#411Source material: Work benchAfter reviewing the first 400 images of this series, one area of exploration I discovered hadn't been covered much was the color pink. There were other areas, like the animal kingdom, figurative work and purple, but my first goal, I decided, was to get pink and orange to work together. This and the following images are what came up.#410Source material:

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#400Source material: Door hinge, palm trees.The resemblance to polka dots made the backgrounds of these two images attractive to me. The asymmetry adds to the odd balance, which at this new milestone seems to be just the right thing to do.#399Source material: Chicken eggs, palm trees.

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#398Source material: Lawn chairs, palm trees.This is a simple “double exposure” combining the chairs with an overlay of the trees. See descriptions below for the tree effects.#397Source material: Chicken eggs.There were infinite number of ways the color shift worked with this simple photo. I chose this one as it was just about as opposite from the original yellow as I could get.#396Source

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#392Source material: Marina, fabric.Continuing in the portrait mode, reminiscent of the “Goat’s Head Soup” Rolling Stones album art.

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#391Source material: Marina, barn.A friend of mine wants to develop a time travel machine so that he can go study at the Bauhaus. I think I’d like to join him, take Photoshop along and see what Man Ray would do with it.#390Source material: Marina, trees.This piece has caused more doubt about whether I should post the image or not. After thinking about it, that in and of itself (the doubt)seemed

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#388Source material: Ashland clouds, checker board, chart of cosmic vibration.For those of you who’ve followed my work over the years, you’ll know that the words I put in the work are not always readable. I think this serves as a great metaphor, in that the meaning of something is often never expressed through words. We tend to read words and believe they are the truth, when that seems, more and

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#386Source material: corrugated tin, Japanese cloud pattern, canned vegetable label, stacked wood.This image is a long way away from the one I dreamt about and attempted to approximate: stacked firewood that looked like it had already been burned. That image was so vivid until I woke up, then after a long day, it had faded to a ghost image. A similar thing happened while trying to reconstruct

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#385Source material: Canoe, bird, rusted basin.This is one of eight new images created since the election (see all of them at my portfolio site). Up until that point, it was extremely hard to concentrate on anything but the polls and all the electoral college scenarios. Thankfully everything went as indicators predicted. I’ve got my fingers crossed that Barack Obama is as intelligent as he seems

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I’ve often read that when a democratic president is in place, the economy blossoms. It is a myth that republican presidents are fiscally responsible, running up huge deficits and generally stifling the economy. Another article on just that appeared in Sunday’s Chronicle. Is there any question that we need to put Barack Obama in office?

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The big question on Sarah Palin's mind is who is Barack Obama, really? And why doesn't he tell the truth about his relationship with Bill Ayers? Well, where has she been the last four years? Obama was put forward as presidential potential after his speech during the convention that nominated John Kerry for president. He's also publicly denounced the extremist past of Ayers.If Obama has been "

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The Bush administration now appears to have the two largest crimes of the century bookending his other crimes. The first, early on, was the largest, deadliest crime conducted on U.S. soil, and although the evidence was hauled away within weeks, Bush resisted any investigation for 441 days. As compared to the one day it took to form a federal investigation into how on Earth Janet Jackson's breast

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Amazing how quickly the shadow side of America can be brought into such sharp focus. We have a great opportunity right now to change the direction the train is going. Not just "stay the course." Not just slow it down, but turn it around. While striving for a higher standard, holding a vision of America returning to greatness, reversing and repairing the damage to Democracy the last eight years

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Today, September 11 on the seventh anniversary of the disaster in NYC, I'm turning the direction of this particular blog to a new heading. While Weekly Press images will still be featured, my intention for the writing is to turn it to the larger thoughts that are driving the images, i.e. the world I live in.The last seven years have been a strange dream, one that I think a majority of people

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#354Source material: Wrapping paper, oil drill chart.#353Source material: Mystery object#352Source material: Mystery objectThis is a companion piece to #351#351Source material: Mystery object, barcodeThis is a companion piece to #352

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#350Source material: Landscape through glass jar.This week, all three images are straight out of the camera, except for cropping and a little color modification. This one is also through a window, which is were the screen pattern comes from.#349Source material: Landscape through glass jar.#348Source material: Window reflected in dead bolt.The misty quality of this image comes from a close-up of a

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#347Source material: Ashland clouds, filtered grid.Normally, I try to make invisible anything using a Photoshop filter, so that the effect is well blended with the overall image. This and the next few images put the liquefy filter out on display. The watery polka dots started as a black/white grid, then using the filter in 60 degree pattern, twisted the grid into these interesting shapes.

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