Gitzo Loc: Indiana

While reading posts on the photo forum I came to one by Ansel Rosewater; In trying to answer it, before I knew it, I was showing him examples of what I was talking about.

After I had posted it, it just occurred to me......I will have no earthly idea "who" looked at it, whether they had any idea what I was talking about, etc etc. So.......I copied the whole thing, drug it up to The Attic, and Now I have to dig up all of the files again so YOU'LL know what I'm talking about.

Now at least I'll know in anyone saw it.





Ansel Rosewater wrote:
I went to an art exhibit which included photography and something called iPad art, which I found interesting. I’d like to know how this is done.

I’ve searched and found many apps for doing art on an iPad. Most are ways of using a stylus or one’s finger to simulate oils or watercolor using various brushes.

None looked as if they would make an abstract such as the example, which I photographed. Any help would be appreciated... and thanks.



Ansel;

iPads are amazing things, but I'm having a hard time thinking that they would be very good for "creating" art; The reason I say this is, I have been using Apple computers for about 12 or 13 years now, and I became interested in "creating" art with software quite some time ago; most of what I have done, I refer to it as "gradient art", simply because I use gradients to do most (but not all ) of it.

Most of my work has been done on a 20 inch iMac, which I always felt was WAY too small for what I wanted to do! Now that I have a 27 in iMac, (the display is actually 13 in high X 22 in long ), I haven't done anything since my old iMac "gave up" on me, and the software that I use (plus about 8 years of work ) are all still on the old machine. I can tell you this; even the large iPad is a VERY small format to use when doing creative things with colors, (or whatever ).

I'll show you a couple of examples of what I'm talking about;

1. My wife and I used to love to go to Marshall-Fields Dept. Store in Chicago before it became "just another Macy's"; On one trip to M-F, I was looking at some brightly colored satin pillows; months later, while I was attempting to think of something to "create" with gradients, I happened to remember those beautiful satin pillows I had seen at Marshall-Fields; #1. is the end "result"

2. My very first computer was a was a very old custom-built PC that my son had given me; probably the best thing about that old computer was a MARVELOUS "screer saver" that had ALL kinds of "pipes"! (I have been trying to come up with designs using pipes ever since! ) #2. I call this one, (what else? ) "Blue Pipes";
All "pipes" designs are 90% "accurate measuring" and a very high sense of "proportion". (and maybe 10% blue gradients )

#3. This one is quite different; the only gradients here are around the border, and the different colors used form a gradient effect.
Believe it or not.....the "idea" for this one came from a very strange place; (in a dream no less! ) As the entire work is made up of nothing but straight lines and a few colors......I call it; "Line Art Inspired By A Dream" Which is exactly what it is! When I awakened at 4 AM, I went to my computer, and a few hours later.....this is the result.

What I should probably also explain, the soft ware that I used for all of this was quite inexpensive, and it was written for a completely different "purpose". (Labeling audio CDs and DVDs )

I can only say, the whole 7 or 8 years I was doing this, the biggest thing that was always driving me "up a wall", was the impossibly small format that I had to work with.

Yet another source of inspiration for creating designs is math; specifically, geometry; (which I know exactly "nothing" about ), other than that in geometry you deal with all sorts of "geometric shapes"; (which I tend to love )

I have always been very intrigued by pyramids; take any four triangular pieces of "anything", make them exactly alike, then set them base down, lean them all together until they come together at the top....and you have a pyramid! But I like bright colors and straight lines; so my pyramids must have some colors, and the colors need to make a design; also, my brain tends to reject things that look "sloppy";

You really need to use your imagination to understand this; if you were laying on your back looking straight up, in the very center of a pyramid, (with lots of light, and the inside of the pyramid had a design on all four sides )........this is what you would see! So in this case, all of my pyramids are in one dimension. (flat )

#4. This is one of about (hundreds maybe? ) pyramid designs that I have created with a few straight lines, some gradients, and a LOT of careful measuring.

Is it "art"? I have been told that, like beauty, art is in the eye of the beholder. (and no two people "see" the same thing. ) You can call it anything you wish.......and it's still fun to do!

#1. Bright Green Satin Pillow

#2. Blue Pipes

#3. Line Art Inspired By A Dream

#4. Big Red Pyramid; (Is It Inside looking up? Or up above looking down? You Tell Me!


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Green Satin Pillow From Marshall-Fields


Blue Pipes


Line Art Inspired By A Dream


Big Red Pyramid; (Are We Inside Looking Up? Or Are We Up, Above Looking Down? (You Tell Me )

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