May 2010. Blog Schmlog. Witnesses to a Car Accident. “Art doesn’t just happen by accident.
It is about pulling out new tricks and trying new things.” ~ Nicholas Meyer Here is another one of my quick compositional studies from class where my teacher gave the model a story to act out. He told her that she would pose as different witnesses to a car accident. We were given about a minute to capture each pose and we had to decide how we would compose the figures. At the end, we were given a few minutes to tie up any loose ends. The way I composed this sketch, the story is about the woman on the left. To the right of her is a crowd of other women. Triangular compositions are a very common and effective tool used by illustrators and filmmakers when grouping figures in art and film. Well, it’s 3:57 AM and I’m getting tired. Related Posts. Art Biz Blog — for the Business of Being an Artist. Everyday Paintings: An Oil Painting Project by David R. Darrow. Images that Speak to Me.
Femme Femme Femme. Underpaintings. On Painting and Algorithms. With an apple I will astonish Paris Paul Cezanne If you wanted to paint an apple in the manner of Cezanne, you would need to have an extensive knowledge of his work and a strong sense of his aesthetic intentions.
Every brushstroke would need to be accompanied by the question, “what would Cezanne do?” You might stop frequently to refer to his paintings to see how he handled certain visual situations. As your painting progressed you would gradually develop perhaps a dozen general stylistic guidelines for yourself. On a basic level, this is not unlike a how a computer algorithm works. Fidelity (or faithfulness) and transparency are two qualities that, for millennia, have been regarded as ideals to be striven for in translation, particularly literary translation. Here is a Shakespeare sonnet translated from German into English by a computer program: I am to compare one summer day you, which you lovelier and moderate are? Drehn in the impact of the storm, and is all too short summer period. and: The National Gallery, London: Western European painting 1250–1900.
Similarity based image search. OK, so you’ve got this image, and you want to find something similar or related; and you want to find it with needle-like accuracy out there in the vast and windblown haystacks of the web.
Search engines, of course, come to mind. Those tireless workhorses of web direction (and misdirection) are always happy to give out their directions (and maybe a few ads) to help in your righteous quest, oh Grail Seeker. But suppose you don’t have that magic word, the name of the painting or artist, What then? Enter similarity based image search, the ability to search for other images based on the characteristics of a known image. There are several approaches to this, and several kinds of search engines to use. In investigating them, I started out with an image that was common, but not too common, Titian’s portrait painting known as Man with a Blue Sleeve (The National Gallery, London, also called A Man with a Quilted Sleeve, which may or may not be a self-portrait, I think it is).