I took the resulting renders and imported them into Photoshop to be masked, shaded and layered. I made many variations on the theme with the photograph of my magnolia pod as the source. I used the Artmatic parameter tree (see blog post, Where did it all begin? Part 1) from Holey Beach Rock as my starter point. But it gave me the spark to play around with the idea of incorporating photographs into the six-pointed stars I had been creating in Artmatic and manipulating in Photoshop. It was a simple reflection without any further manipulation. ![]() I found an example I made from a piece of beach rock marked with holes. I was looking though the various experimentations I had done with U&I Software’s Artmatic, a modular graphics synthesizer that I enjoyed fiddling with. It was placed there by my landscape designer as his gift to me and as a reminder of his business, Mother Magnolia. The base image is a magnolia pod from a tree in my garden. ![]() When I got home, I created the first piece, Magnolia Pod-me Hum. And while I did not become a practitioner like my brother, it did lead me to begin my series of photography-based kaleidoscopic artwork. In January of 2011, I attended an inspirational seminar, Matrix Energetics. I was frustrated and needed another artistic outlet. The results were beautiful, but the cost was too high to make them profitable. I wanted to have my designs custom printed on silk to make into prayer shawls ( tallit). I was working on Judaic Art but had hit a roadblock. I prepare the selected foundlings in Adobe Photoshop using a technique called masking (think of a digital X-acto with a lot more control). I gather the masked foundling into layers and manipulate the light and shadow to enhance the illusion of depth in the finished artwork.Ĭategories Creating Artwork, Demonstrations, Flowers, Inspiration, Kaleidoscope Art, Uncategorized Tags art process, artist, Artmatic, bird of paradise, botanical, digital art, digital photography, kaleidoscope, Karen Hochman Brown, origin, photoshop, symmetry Leave a comment Masked foundlingĪfter creating several foundlings, I examine them in large scale-sorting, selecting and sometimes creating more, as the artwork requires. I call the resulting images “foundlings.” I collect the foundlings and tuck them away in a folder, preparing for a digital collage. The key-framing process allows an image to be animated over time (videos) however, for this series, I only capture the still frames, instructing the software to render the kaleidoscopic reflections. Interesting results are saved as key-frames that can be rendered into large-scale graphic files. The photograph is filtered through a variety of mathematical transformations-stretched, bent and reflected through fractals, polar space and fun-house mirrors. I import the base image into a graphic synthesizer program (ArtMatic) for manipulation. ![]() Pay special attention to the blue-violet flower petal speckled in dewdrops emerging from the structural flower’s beak-like sheath or spathe. They come together for a natural display of secondary colors. The sturdy purple and orange blossom shows up against a muted green background. As you might have guessed, the subject is the bird of paradise flower. I’m going to use as an example the piece Bird O Paradise. Bird Paradise base image Artmatic graphic synthesizerĮvery one of my kaleidoscopic artworks starts with a photograph.
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