Last few weeks I’ve kept myself busy and happy with continuing my experiments with long exposure photos. I also enjoyed editing them by adding textures I’ve created. I’m still not 100% sure where it will take me but for now I’m having fun playing around with this series of images. Here are just a few of them.
What I love the most about there pictures is capturing movement and color and I really like the feeling that I’m actually making and not just taking these photos.
I’ve been in strange mood recently (I blame it on crazy weather we’re having in Croatia right now) so I decided to snap myself out of the not-so-great mood by playing with ink a little bit. It definitely cheered me up and once again I was proven there is nothing more therapeutic than making art!
Blues.
Video by me, sound by Alkaline Samurai.
Three colorful explosions!
Delicious bowl of ink.
It moves.
Ink gems.
Recently I made my very first scrapbook ever. I really felt like doing something a bit different than my usual style and I felt like experimenting. And indeed this book turned out quite unlike my other work, both in concept and execution. It turned out to be a simple exercise in visual storytelling of sorts.
Ok, let’s start from beginning. I knew I wanted to put together a simple scrapbook and I knew I wanted to utilize my old analog photos in it. But just gluing photos on book pages wasn’t enough especially because photos themselves (although simple) were evocative of certain moods. So, I decided to intuitively associate one word with each picture without thinking too much. First words that came to mind were: dream, warmth, memory, remember, reverie, passage, nostalgia, moody, silence and timeless. I wrote the words on a typewriter and printed out dictionary definitions of the words and paired them with photos. I wanted to create a dreamy mood while keeping the book minimalistic so I used white background for pages and light blue for back and cover.
Here is the result (also scroll down if you want to see the actual work-in-progress pics):
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Ok, and this is how I actually made the book. First I got myself nice, big box and cut 15x15cm cardboard pieces. I painted each piece white on both sides using acrylic paint (except book cover and back which I painted blueish). I choose photos I wanted to use and cut them so they can fit on my square format pages. I glued them on pages and then punched holes in cardboard so I can bind them. After this was done, I added words, more paint and ink stains on each page to make the whole book intentionally messier and totally imperfect.
The whole process of making this scrapbook was very intuitive and a great exercise to put me in mood for telling stories and setting moods through photographs which I’ve been doing for my actual photo book (I mentioned it here before) that should be out in December 2012.
Since I often try to depict woods or forest in my illustrations and I’m a fan of simplified, abstract shapes I frequently attempt to find different simple ways to sketch a shape of a tree. Here are few of my doodles, experiments in how to represent woods in an (almost) abstract way.
