Digital Manipulation 2012, March 18, 5:00 pm

cyanotype

The final image is a picture of the process of coating the paper to make the final image.   The pattern made by the emulsion is the one seen being made on the page in the picture.  The image is a window into its own creation.

Digital Manipulation 2012, March 15, 12:00 pm

cyanotype

Digital Manipulation 2012, March 14, 4:30 pm

cyanotype

digital

5 digits per hand

manually applied iron salts

manipulated by digits

manually processed in the computer

digital output to transparency

manual contact printing with a digital transparency, of the records of digits manually applying emulsion while the digital camera captures the process, whose digital files will be manipulated to show multiple steps of the process before outputting that digital file for manual contact printing...

Digital Manipulation 2012, March 18, 6:15 pm

cyanotype

Digital Manipulation 2012, March 14, 4:00 pm

cyanotype

The cyanotype “Digital Manipulation” prints are records of their own creation. Photos are taken, at regular intervals, of the process of applying the iron salt emulsion to the paper. While the emulsion dries, I chose the best set of images from the record, and print a digital negative. Each image is contact printed outside, using direct sunlight. The time and date are recorded on the back. These are equal part drawing and photograph.

Children love to draw

(was going to title this:  "Children love to draw, and college students think they can't draw")

because by the time a student is college aged, that student has had enough experiences that teach the student that they do not know what they are doing.  This leads to a common anxiety with which teachers (particularly art teachers) must contend.  Visual art is an experience that demands much trial and error.  It demands more error than success.  And, that tendency is intimidating in this world of standarized testing and goal-oriented students (read: parents who demand 4.0 GPA, and do not pay attention to the process of learning, and the benefits of failure).

So, with these drawings, I turn to the never-ending enthusiasm of children.  If a child does not know how to draw something, that child asks an adult how to draw it.  Better yet, frequently, the child will try to draw that something, and fail many times before asking the adult.  I found myself drawing, in a structured way (based on training), and the child with which I was drawing frequently interrupted my process to add colors or lines that I did not consider (silly adult brain....).  I feel that we have much to learn from this childish attitude.   I don't know what, but there is something in the enthusiasm for drawing that children have (and college students need [and Basquiat probably intuited] ).

Cezanne 19

analysis of Bibemus Quarry

Cezanne 18

analysis of Le Cabanon de Jourdan

Cezanne 17

analysis of Mont Sainte-Victoire

Sophomore year in High School (mechanical drawing)

This school offered four years of mechanical, machine, and architectural drawing to the students.  It was one of the last classes left in the industrial arts wing.  (the district had already eliminated auto mechanics, and was talking about getting rid of metal shop, wood shop, and electronics)

It was one of the classes that made a practical connection to the math I was learning (initially geometry, and some algebra in the advanced mech. drawing classes). 

In addition to revealing the practical application of advanced mathematics, this class taught me line control, accurate measuring, and 2 & 3 point linear perspective (all of which gave me an advantage with later art classes).  It also gave me a desire to figure out how things are made, and communicate the discovery through visual means.

Cezanne 16

analysis of Horse Chestnut Trees at Jas de Bouffan

Cezanne 15

analysis of Chateau Noir

Cezanne 14

analysis of Mont Sainte Victoire

Cezanne 13

analysis of Mont Sainte Victoire

Cezanne 12

analysis of Le Cabanon de Jourdan

Cezanne 11

analysis of Bibemus Quarry

White on Red

enamel paint study for self-similar patterns in liquids of similar viscosity:

white on red

made in Corciano, Italy

Purchase this online or at the gallery.  Sale of this work benefits Art in a Box charity for Children.

The following link will go live on Nov. 30 at noon

http://www.artinabox.org/benefitartexhibition.htm

Online sale 12:01 am December 5th to 11:00 pm December 9

Pop up Exhibition and Sale Dec 9 & 10, 12 - 6 pm at 

Skylight Gallery

538 W. 29th St.

NY, NY 10001

Party for Collectors and Artists at the gallery

December 11, 5 - 8 pm

Cezanne 10

analysis of House with Cracked Walls

Cezanne 09

analysis of House with Cracked Walls

Let the holiday be a holiday for everyone.

Support the over-worked and under-paid retail employees

by not shopping from normal closing time tonight

until 8 am on Friday.

The giant retailers will extend sales.  If history is any indicator, the sales actually get better AFTER Friday, the closer we get to Christmas.  

"Do to others what you want them to do to you.  This is the meaning of the law of Moses and the teaching of the prophets"

-Jesus  (Matthew 7:12)

"Recognize that your neighbor feels as you do, and keep in mind your own dislikes"

-Sirach 31:15

"None of you [truly] believes until he wishes for his brother what he wishes for himself"

-An-Nanawi's Forty Hadith 13 

"Never impose on others what you would not choose for yourself"

-Confucius

"What you do not want to happen to you, do not do it yourself either"

-Sextus (the Pythagorean)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reciprocal_altruism

Cezanne 08

analysis of Gardanne

Cezanne 07

analysis of Monte Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine (detail of center)

Cezanne 06

analysis of Monte Sainte-Victoire with Large Pine

Cezanne 05

analysis of Bords d'une Riviere

Cezanne 04

analysis of Bords d'une Riviere

Cezanne 03

analysis of House with Cracked Walls

Cezanne 02

analysis of Gardanne

Cezanne 01

analysis of Lake Annecy

formalist 18

formalist 17

formalist 16

(The Road Less Travelled)

formalist 15

(Where The Mountains Meet The Sea)

formalist 14

(Nineteen Eightysomething)

formalist 13

(Bontecou Klee Schwitters) 

formalist 12

(pre-Mondrian post-Martin)

formalist 11

formalist 10

formalist 09

formalist 08

formalist 07

formalist 06

circle in oblong 05

circles in oblongs 04

circle in oblong 03

Making Adjustment Curves for Digital Negatives

This was designed for making photogravures (polymer), but will work for any alternative/historical photographic process that requires a negative/positive printed on a transparency with an inkjet printer.






http://youtu.be/gZAQtm4KMlQ


This is a video version of the workflow from the book
http://www.amazon.com/Making-Photogravures-With-Polymer-Plates/dp/0615919219
The video was made for one of my classes last year.  The class already had lessons on intaglio printing, finding minimum (and optimum) exposure times, as well as a quick introduction to setting up the scanner to digitally capture an image of an intaglio print with multiple step wedges.

Here are links to many articles and videos.

Articles published on www.AlternativePhotography.com

When to use gray gamma 1.8 or 2.2

http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/negatives/when-to-use-gray-gamma-1-8-or-2-2-for-digital-negatives

Finding Base Exposure Time when making Photogravures with Polymer Plates

http://www.alternativephotography.com/wp/processes/photogravure/base-exposure-times-when-making-photogravures-with-polymer-plates

YouTube instruction videos

Which gray gamma setting to use for digital negatives

http://youtu.be/prNBUxlG4Ms?list=PLzYT1bX0RsTld2baNYecSEnL9ZKzbAc4A

Making your own step wedge for digital negatives

http://youtu.be/_MlwU6wQRw4?list=PLzYT1bX0RsTld2baNYecSEnL9ZKzbAc4A

Making adjustment curves for photogravures (polymer) and digital negatives

http://youtu.be/gZAQtm4KMlQ?list=PLzYT1bX0RsTld2baNYecSEnL9ZKzbAc4A

Making a polymer plate for photogravure

http://youtu.be/dMYi7G4NOzA?list=PLzYT1bX0RsTld2baNYecSEnL9ZKzbAc4A

Photogravure printing (in real time)

http://youtu.be/0HkvxnO22s4?list=PLzYT1bX0RsTld2baNYecSEnL9ZKzbAc4A

Making a cyanotype

http://youtu.be/V-e6QBGwD5E?list=PLzYT1bX0RsTld2baNYecSEnL9ZKzbAc4A

Articles on my own blog

Overview of making adjustment curves for digital negatives

http://artandwater.blogspot.com/2012/03/digital-negatives-adjustment-curves.html

Adjustment curves compared

http://artandwater.blogspot.com/2012/08/curves-by-intuition-and-some-experience.html

Cyanotype toning materials compared

http://artandwater.blogspot.com/2012/08/12-different-cyanotype-tones-compared.html

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