tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:20:39 +0000Digital art sketchbook by artist Bruce Bayard<br />with comments about creating each image.http://bruce-bayard.com/noreply@blogger.com (babayard)Blogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-9191072445005985636Tue, 02 Sep 2008 04:11:00 +00002008-09-01T21:20:39.104-07:00#350 Source material: Landscape through glass jar. This week, all three images are straight out of the camera, except for cropping and a little color modification. This one is also through a window, which is were the screen pattern comes from. #349 Source material: Landscape through glass jar. #348 Source material: Window reflected in dead bolt. The misty quality of this image comes from a http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/09/through-glass-jar.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-4841479272422706168Tue, 26 Aug 2008 00:48:00 +00002008-08-25T18:20:57.688-07:00#347 Source material: Ashland clouds, filtered grid. Normally, I try to make invisible anything using a Photoshop filter, so that the effect is well blended with the overall image. This and the next few images put the liquefy filter out on display. The watery polka dots started as a black/white grid, then using the filter in 60 degree pattern, twisted the grid into these interesting shapes. #346http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/08/fun-with-filters.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-7151328803501086090Tue, 19 Aug 2008 02:09:00 +00002008-08-18T22:17:09.560-07:00A bout last week with insomnia caused me to grab my camera and head out around town photographing the middle of streets and other odd places, without paying much attention to the standard photography concepts of exposure, focus, composition. It was very refreshing to point in the general direction of something and click away. That isn’t to say I didn’t compose things a bit after seeing what http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/08/nightwalk.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-9136135560407909794Tue, 12 Aug 2008 01:44:00 +00002008-08-11T18:53:47.320-07:00#330 Source material: Ashland clouds, Japanese cloud pattern. These billowy clouds, which were stitched together from a couple shots looked rather interesting with the edges showing, but I opted for seamless edges and a hard edge from the pattern to simplify the composition. #329 Source material: Fabric, generated pattern. I am trying out a crazy little pluggin for InDesign which allows the http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/08/patterns.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-5545965599308777749Mon, 04 Aug 2008 23:55:00 +00002008-08-04T17:14:47.867-07:00#328 Source material: Workbench. The three photos I took in Klamath Falls a couple weeks ago proved to be a rich source of fun. I could go on and on finding interesting compositions from the originals by overlapping and changing blending modes. #327 Source material: Workbench. Adding color layers and contrasting objects adds to the fun. #326 Source material: Workbench. These remind me of an http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/08/work-bench.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-4165269070934437252Tue, 29 Jul 2008 05:09:00 +00002008-07-28T22:38:53.805-07:00#323 Source material: Workbench. Last Friday, we attended an opening at 9610, a brand new gallery, garden, landscape space in Klamath Falls. The gallery has an eclectic collection of work, all relating to the landscape and gardenscape, and the office has a very cool workbench left over from when the building was used as a blacksmith shop. I took three shots that eventually will be a long http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/07/klamath-river-basin.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-3719891011565044438Tue, 22 Jul 2008 01:42:00 +00002008-07-21T19:22:07.337-07:00#317 Source material: Train. This week, I intended to create purely “background” images consisting mainly of texture, and that led to reviewing images in my train directory. Here, an image that I had formerly passed over as too representational, really caught my eye. No manipulation to this photo other than to sharpen and adjust the levels. #316 Source material: Train, wall texture. This and thehttp://bruce-bayard.com/2008/07/training.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-5812403073372254251Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:53:00 +00002008-07-14T23:16:36.018-07:00#313 Source material: Fabric, word list. I keep being enthralled by the images from this photo shoot. The material looks good enough to eat. Here, the idea was to place a mental barrier between the viewer and fabric. The word list is a bunch of synonyms for the word "barrier." #312 Source material: Clouds, kindergarten eyechart, globe. A very lovely sunset a couple nights ago produced these http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/07/worlds-apart.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-4977905774445600528Tue, 08 Jul 2008 05:05:00 +00002008-07-07T22:44:49.577-07:00What a mess. I thought the idea for this week's work was a good one, but the results seem to refute that. I took twelve frames of Spring Creek as I walked along the water's edge; an odd, disjointed panorama that somehow still gave the flavor of the place. I wanted to treat each frame individually with multiple overlay collage elements, then combine all twelve in one piece, intensifying the http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/07/spring-creek-massacre.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-3720497002171557394Tue, 01 Jul 2008 00:11:00 +00002008-06-30T17:30:39.723-07:00#300 Source material: Log wheel, woodblock type. Looking at the repair job of this wheel, more evident in image #299 (wedges of wood hammered in), I was reminded of woodblock type and decided to explore what these two elements might look like together. In the first attempt, seen below, I kept elements separate to contrast them. Here I let them run together to see what patterns they would make. http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/06/woodblocks.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-663218813818538520Mon, 23 Jun 2008 22:20:00 +00002008-06-23T16:30:48.300-07:00#298 Source material: Log wheel. A recent trip to Chiloquin and the nearby logging museum netted this and the following, both turned into a diptych with the idea that two images of the same object need not line up to give the flavor of the thing and the chasm even adds a little conceptually. #297 Source material: Log wheel. #296 Source material: Ashland clouds. With summer weather comes great http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/06/abrupt-edges.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-7278195712107655781Tue, 17 Jun 2008 01:00:00 +00002008-06-16T18:23:20.063-07:00#293 Source material: Honey locust pods, plaster wall. By pure luck I stumbled across this effect of glowing pods, and except for carefully outlining the shapes to effect the background separately, this image came together very quickly. #292 Source material: Painted plastic tarp, Idaho clouds, polka dots in graphite and charcoal. In contrast to #293, I worked a long time on this one, scrapped http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/06/luck-and-elbow-grease.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-7117050852494753541Tue, 10 Jun 2008 03:14:00 +00002008-06-09T20:24:54.453-07:00#290 Source material: Checkered wrapping paper This and the following image are the first two Weeklies meant to be a diptych. I don't know what took so long to think of this, since I've been wanting to make a horizontal piece for a long time... #289 Source material: Grain Storage Many years ago when I lived in Flagstaff, one of the big employers was Purina and when I first saw this recent image,http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/06/diptych.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-2049683210108395727Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:22:00 +00002008-06-02T17:38:29.156-07:00#288 Source material: Wasp nest My friend Tom sent a scan of a wasp nest that fit perfectly with the concept I was tossing around at the time: The fact that content can seem empty or not present in so many things these days. Originally, I was going to post this image as text only; something I have yet to do. The metaphors of emptiness and hives seems like rich territory to explore. #287 Source http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/06/surface-content.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-7084510594854037229Mon, 26 May 2008 21:26:00 +00002008-05-26T15:04:47.561-07:00#282 Source material: Window shade, bad inkjet printout. The following 12 images were all created from photos taken during a recent family reunion. This and #281 come from a view through a window shade looking out at trees. The overlay is of a bad injet print, and it's the interaction of positive and negative layers that got things going. #281 Source material: Window shade, bad inkjet print. Thehttp://bruce-bayard.com/2008/05/reunion.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-7846210588974822026Tue, 13 May 2008 04:48:00 +00002008-05-12T23:03:51.547-07:00#270 Source material: MGM Grand Las Vegas, Ashland Peace Fence fabric The mystery and simplicity of the distorted perspective of this glass box, further distorted by a wind-damaged plastic tarp, stopped me from pursuing (for now) the direction I had originally planned to go. #269 Source material: MGM Grand Las Vegas, Ashland Peace Fence fabric Ditto. #268 Source material: Grand Canyon, Idaho http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/05/line-of-view.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-5869936272556785019Tue, 06 May 2008 00:12:00 +00002008-05-05T17:33:37.848-07:00#266 Source material: Grand Canyon, honey locust bean pods, oil drill chart, postscript print error, forest fire It has been exciting to continue exploring in black and white, and while I could not resist turning off the adjustment layer that renders everything in grayscale when I thought the image was complete, the results were not nearly as intriguing as the BW. The following images in this http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/05/barge-continued.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-2756486517461883651Tue, 29 Apr 2008 05:58:00 +00002008-04-28T23:17:30.998-07:00#262 Source material: Idaho cloudscape, dicycle, postscript print error, honey locust bean pods This week I pulled out my Robert Rauschenberg book and revisited some seriously influential paintings; most notably "Barge," which reminded me that very little of the work I've done in this series has been strictly black and white. Before Photoshop, I had an elaborate system of black images on mylar http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/04/262-source-material-cloudscape-dicycle.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-314141874119880343Mon, 21 Apr 2008 22:48:00 +00002008-04-21T16:15:33.575-07:00#261 Source material: Wrench, railroad rust. The wrench was scanned on my scanner and the background created by combining railroad rust with painting bands of color and color modifying in Photoshop. Brut force. #260 Source material: Globe, privacy envelope pattern. I keep coming back to this out-of-focus image. I had to research it again to remind myself what it was. I like that very much. The http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/04/261-source-material-wrench-railroad.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-3050912660853348260Tue, 15 Apr 2008 04:48:00 +00002008-04-14T22:23:16.450-07:00#256 Source material: fabric In a very simplistic exploration, changing levels and hue can dramatically alter the feeling of the same subject. Wanting to add a level of meaning is the reasoning for the added word. I have used "sync" before, but the double meaning here seemed apropriate for the deep blue. #255 Source material: lilies Fully intending to layer these flowers over the fabric to see http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/04/256-source-material-fabric-in-very.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-7689388664378775336Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:05:00 +00002008-04-08T00:01:03.011-07:00#251 Source material:Fabric The most recent two images begin a new focus for me to use "straight" photography as the focus; here modified with only one level adjustment and one color overlay, these two images of drapery are now the most un-manipulated images I've done. Drapery has always fascinated me as it has artists for millennia. #250 Source material:Fabric The first of its type in this http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/04/almost-unaltered-photography.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-2367148230667406247Tue, 01 Apr 2008 05:00:00 +00002008-03-31T22:21:57.546-07:00#248 Source material: Tree trunk, postscript printing error. All three images this week started with the same tree trunk close-up, but in the process of experimenting with how that image interacted with others, became completely different final images. Here, the blurriness of the hole-filled bark is contrasted with the sharpness of a bad printout (digital gibberish). #247 Source material: Tree http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/03/same-impulse-different-results.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-8997661003708889358Tue, 25 Mar 2008 05:26:00 +00002008-03-24T23:50:50.763-07:00artdigital art #245 Source material: Japanese cloud icon, train rust, globe. Here, the overall field was given a subtle modulation by overlaying a very blurry close-up photo of a globe. You'd never be able to make it out, but the effect is all it needed to liven up the surface. #244 Source material: Japanese cloud icon, train rust/graffiti. "Postscript" truly came to completion after I thought the initial http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/03/contradictions-and-contrasts.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1751002436919247797.post-4610595145289508494Fri, 21 Mar 2008 03:08:00 +00002008-03-21T21:11:41.268-07:00artdigitalIn 2006, I had the desire to get back into my creative work on a regular basis, but was finding no time or energy to do so without a specific project to work on. I decided to set a goal to create one image per day and post it on my website, then send out an email describing the work to people I thought might be interested to watch the progress. We'll, I soon realized that goal would not be http://bruce-bayard.com/2008/03/weekly-press-explained.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (babayard)