In my last post I wrote about using the extruder for my latest portrait. I didn't go into detail of what I did with the extruded pieces. I have been trying to come up with a way to create depth in my mosaic pieces. It has been difficult to come up with something because of the mechanics of it and the sheer number of pieces involved. I don't mind a challenge but it has to be able to be completed in my lifetime. I decided what I would do would be to mount the pieces on separate sheets of clear plastic. I then had to decide how to break up the colors. At first I thought I'd put the lightest colors on the foremost sheet of plastic and the darker towards the back. This would make sense since the lightest would probably be the raised parts. I decided against this because of the difficulty of construction. I knew it would be easier to have a greater change in color scale while I was placing the pieces.
I came up with four sheets with each sheet having four to five colors on them. Of course it was a @#$% (bleep) getting them lined up but no one ever said it would be easy. It was another one of my artistic leaps of faith because I had to finish it before I knew whether it would work.
Here are some of the individual sheets and a little movie I made to help illustrate the depth effect I was going for.
I would like to say that my Mommy and May project is complete but the truth is I still need to mount her permanently. I also want to add some mats. Because of the problems of the reflections I had to bring out my huge photo cube that I got when I bought my photo lights. The cube pops out to be about 4 feet square. I was then able to put the whole picture inside the cube. I then draped the opening of the cube with black fabric. This covered over the camera that was set on a tripod. I then used the remote shutter release to take the picture. This way I wasn't there to be reflected in the glass or the plastic. And voila no reflection.
I am ever going to repeat this process I think I would mount the pieces on glass rather than plastic. This way if I made a mistake it could be scraped off.......Yes, I know it may come as a shock to some but I do make mistakes.
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Brilliant Julie! I wish I had patience to work on something bigger than a pendant! The video really helped to understand what an interesting portrait it is.
ReplyDeleteYes, seeing the video put it in perspective (pun intended). Unbelievable. It is so beautiful. The love comes through not only in the subjects, but in the creation. Spectacular Julie. You never cease to amaze.
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