Fire and Gold is an image that comes from the pure magic that a day of sailing can provide. The stylized presentation plays off the vivid colors that actually happen at separate times of day: the vivid gold of the sun at noon, the deep blue of the water at dusk, the fiery sky at sunset. Some might wonder, does the gold color rising up the sails reflect the cost of running a sailboat? Why, heaven forbid I should think such a thing!
This image, like all my images, begins as a high-resolution digital photograph. I then manipulate the image in all sorts of ways, trying this, trying that, layering one manipulation on another, until I find my way through the maze of possibilities to the Katagrafika effect--an abstracted image that evokes more than the original image, that tells us thing we could not have known otherwise.
The detail image shows you how the image has been transformed and textured. It comes from a small section at the top of the mast in the main image.
In the detail of the masthead, you can see that the swirling lines of the yacht are actually small masses and strings of pixilated color that trace back to the actual form of the boat, but take on a life of their own in the transformation process.
The pixilation is deliberate; it is one of the natural effects that occurs all the time in digital images, and for me it works very much as the tiny dots of the Pointillist painters--a unique texture all its own.
Fire and Gold is a 14x21 inch image printed on [
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Fire and Gold is an image that comes from the pure magic that a day of sailing can provide. The stylized presentation plays off the vivid colors that actually happen at separate times of day: the vivid gold of the sun at noon, the deep blue of the water at dusk, the fiery sky at sunset. Some might wonder, does the gold color rising up the sails reflect the cost of running a sailboat? Why, heaven forbid I should think such a thing!
This image, like all my images, begins as a high-resolution digital photograph. I then manipulate the image in all sorts of ways, trying this, trying that, layering one manipulation on another, until I find my way through the maze of possibilities to the Katagrafika effect--an abstracted image that evokes more than the original image, that tells us thing we could not have known otherwise.
The detail image shows you how the image has been transformed and textured. It comes from a small section at the top of the mast in the main image.
In the detail of the masthead, you can see that the swirling lines of the yacht are actually small masses and strings of pixilated color that trace back to the actual form of the boat, but take on a life of their own in the transformation process.
The pixilation is deliberate; it is one of the natural effects that occurs all the time in digital images, and for me it works very much as the tiny dots of the Pointillist painters--a unique texture all its own.
Fire and Gold is a 14x21 inch image printed on a 16x24 inch sheet.
The surface is smooth and glossy. The vibrant colors in the piece will benefit from hanging it where it will avoid window reflections and the like.
The print is shipped to you rolled in a tube or triangle. The corners are padded to protect the image. It comes to you ready for framing. [
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