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Art and Blogging: 09/06/07
I read a wide variety of blogs but my two favorite blog subjects are art and books. These are both hobbies of mine and something that calms me down and cheers me up.
Originally I was only following the posts of a couple artists but then I found the Daily Painters Blog which is an index of participants who have vowed to post a painting a day on their blogs. Of course not everyone posts daily but there is still a wide variety of styles represented.
As new work comes up that tickles my fancy or otherwise inspires me, I subscribe to that artist's blog. Sometimes a painting is so captivating that I feel the need to do my own version (usually in Carrara and Bryce). I do not copy nor do I even refer to the original while working on mine. I just take in the details and commit as much as I can to memory. I think about the subject, shape, negative space, light sources and colors. I focus most on whatever element it was that first caught my attention.
In the case of "Vodka Tonic" I was taken in by Jelaine Faunce's strong use of light and dark. These sharp divisions of light and dark bring the details into an almost photorealistic focus. It was the use of light to create a sense of realism that prompted me to try my own.
My version took about an hour to build the models in Carrara and set up the scene in Bryce. I also created my own materials in Bryce and then set it to render. The rendering process, because of all the transparency, reflection and refraction, took two days to complete. With a few details not quite right in the final render I had to further clean things up in Photoshop.
Was it work two days of listening to my computer churn and threaten to overheat? You bet! I learned new lighting and texturing techniques that I can use in the future.
daily painters blog | jelaine faunce | bryce | carrara
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