Starting a New Project – Abstracted
For a change of pace I’m going to share some of the photos that I looked at when starting this project. The finished piece will be 18″x45″ so the shape of the piece will be a challenge in itself.
This piece will be an entry into a FAN (Fibre Art Network) exhibition in 2013 entitled Abstracted. This show requires artists to work with a partner, one artist develops a representative art piece and the other develops an abstract/non-representative art piece using a common subject. The pieces will be developed collaboratively and will be hung side-by-side. I’m partnering with Judi MacLeod from Victoria and we have not yet met in person.
This one lends itself to texture….
Ferns, Ancient Forest, Northern British Columbia 2011
This one has mood …..
- Mountains in Southern Alberta 2012
Loved the colors in this one ….
Dusk Over the Mountains in Southern Alberta 2012
Once again great texture possibilities ….
Tree in Ancient Forest , Northern British Columbia 2011
Undergrowth, Ancient Forest, northern British Columbia 2011
This shape lends itself to the required composition….
Because we live on two sides of the Rocky Mountains, I looked for pictures that would incorporate the mountains…..
Lake Minnewanka near Banff
Rocky Mountains and Canola fields, southern Alberta 2012
- Cascade Mountain, Banff
Because I love skies I looked at this one…..
June Skies near the Rockies, near Calgary AB 2012
I realized as I worked through my photos that I am drawn to landscapes but this collaborative work presents more challenges. So I looked at some that provided a closer perspective.
Foliage in Ancient Forest , northern British Columbia,2011
Fungi or Lichen? – found in Ancient Forest in northern British Columbia 2011
Judi shared a number of her photos as well. In the end we independently selected a photo of the same kind of Lichen from our collections and the one above, from my collection, was the one we selected for this project.