Experimenting in Photoshop
After finding out about how Chris Finley distorts images and uses though as reference points for his art I thought I would do the same. However I would be distorting portraits as he did- I would use blocks of colour as my starting point.
So I made a digital ‘canvas’ and filled half orange and half red- my thinking being if I needed more colour I can always add it.
I then began using Photoshop to distort it every way I could and come up with some interesting effects.
I don’t think that I’ll use one particular photo to paint from, as I don’t think any of them work as an overall piece. What I will do however is cherry pick parts from the ones that i think work and then add them to various paintings. For example in Exercise 4 I’ll like how, at the bottom left of the image, the paint looks as if it is melting off the canvas and gives a discerning perspective which I think is exacerbated by one of the lines being so dark and the other two so light.
The only thing i would lie to pint out is the limitions of photoshop (or limitations of my ability to use it.) I fould it impossible to create some of the shapes/ manipulations i was hoping to. I wanted to ajust the persepctive of shapes and attept to sculpt the enviroment using different shapes lines and paterns that hd been manipulated. However i had trouble doing any of hat on photoshop.
My intesion is to take the same starting image and manipulate it using adobe Illustrator- a program i think that wil let me achive those effects.
