hauksdottir opened this issue on Jul 22, 2007 · 10 posts
hauksdottir posted Sun, 22 July 2007 at 6:33 AM
It is starting to display potential. The colors are rich against a dark ground. It is alien, but warm. Viewer reaction should be curiosity and not adversion. Color carries so much emotional quality, that in an abstract work they become even more critical to communication.
However, it was time to stop playing with sliders and move pixels around. Cloning and cut and paste made that brick irregular enough to lessen its eye-snagging habit. Fixing the butterfly wing took subtlety, because I didn't want it to look neatly hand-drawn and it had to match the other linework. I borrowed lines from all over and blended them. There were other areas that got nudged into shadow or lines that gained in importance. Some stray bits got cleaned up, but only if they were too distracting. Remember randomness! Chaos is not tidy.
The composition is more interesting now. It still lacks a clear focus, but the silhouette is stronger.