Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts
Showing posts with label photography. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 11, 2014

Ink Embellishments and Photographing Neon


Hi there. How are you? As promised, here are the 3 abstracts I started last week, all now embellished with ink. I approached each one a little bit differently.


All that's left to do now is to apply several coats of satin varnish each piece. The varnish protects the paper from UV rays, water, and dirt. I often photograph pieces prior to adding he varnish, as it's slightly reflective quality makes it even trickier to photograph these.

Speaking of photographing, it took me a whole afternoon to get decent photographs of these pieces. It is really difficult to photograph or scan neon hues like the orange I used in these pieces. Cameras and scanners just don't know how to interpret larger than life neon colors.


This is what happens when I scan these pieces. The scanner just washes out the color completely. Yuck! Even with some major color correction in Photoshop, I can't get the colors right.

My digital manual camera does better, but I still have to manipulate the images, and even then they don't look quite right.  Anyone out there have any trick to capturing neon accurately?

Until I figure out the neon game, I guess you'll just have to come and see these pieces in person! My summer art fair schedule is filling up. Here's the tentative schedule of where you can find me this summer. Ta-Ta for now!

Wednesday, November 7, 2012

Weekly iPhoneography


Hi! How are you?

It was a pretty week in Southern Illinois....Kinda hard to believe it's November!


My parents came down for a visit. We took a walk around Campus Lake at SIU. 


Matt on one of the many "diving" boards that dot the lakeshore. 
 




Matt made Mexican style pickled vegetables. Heavenly!

Have a great rest of the week. Ta-Ta!

Tuesday, October 23, 2012

Another iPhoto weekend

Expect to see this chair make an appearance in my work!
Hi there? How was the weekend?

We had another stellar Southern Illinois weekend. 
Beautiful weather, good food, fun times with friends and great live music. 
 Here is my weekend in pictures.


Hobo Knife at Vulture Fest in Makanda, Illinois

The door to our friend Hugh's house in Makanda. 
Hugh lives above the boardwalk in the center of downtown Makanda.
A charming little vignette in Hugh's apartment









We capped Saturday night off with a martini garnished with Mexican style picked vegetables homemade by Matt. Yum!
 
Have a great week friends. Ta-Ta. 

P.S. Have you read yesterday's blog post? There's a DISCOUNT CODE! Woo!






Sunday, October 7, 2012

Autumn Walkabout


Hi. How are you?

It was a beautiful autumn weekend in Southern Illinois. Today we took a great hike in a nearby state park.








I used the panorama feature on the iPhone to capture this majestic tree.




Happy fall all. Ta-Ta for now!

Saturday, July 28, 2012

Summer Vacation Photos

 

Well hi! How's the weekend going?

I spent the day compiling all of our pics from the Johnson family trip to Kenya and Budapest into a Shutterfly book.
Thought you'd like to see the results. 

Enjoy!