Convergence
by Lori Kingston
Title
Convergence
Artist
Lori Kingston
Medium
Digital Art - Painting, Digitally Altered
Description
On my computer, I have a folder called Digital Playground. (I have a collection with that same name here on Fine Art America to show off my results.) When I'm searching for inspiration, I look though the images there, and almost always find things that I'd meant to work on but hadn't yet, or that I'd started and hadn't finished, or that I'd put in there because I didn't like it but didn't want to just delete it. This piece falls into that last category.
I made this painting several years ago, and wasn't hugely impressed with my results. I was just getting started with acrylic pouring, and hadn't learned some of the techniques that I know now for getting good compositions. When I photographed it, my lighting wasn't great, so the color was off and the image wasn't as sharply focused as I would have liked. On another day I might have just deleted the image, but for some reason I put it in Digital Playground.
Today I pulled it out and started playing with it. I've learned how to sharpen images, at least a little, and how to remove that color cast to get back to the blues, greens, and white I originally poured. But the composition was still... eh. Wonder what would happen if I did a mirror-and-flip? I enlarged my canvas, duplicated the image and mirrored it, lining up the edges, then duplicated that pair and flipped them over to make an image four times the original size. And suddenly I have converging lines! Arrows pointing toward the center! I really like this! This is the kind of thing that can happen on the Digital Playground. :)
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December 13th, 2021
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Gigi Thomas
Your awesome creation has been FEATURED on the ABSTRACT FEATURES DAILY GROUP Home Page! Congrats! Self Posting Available on the Discussion page.
CAROLE SPANDAU
Your artwork has been featured on the homepage of FAA Gallery Home For All Artists Who Create. Please post your amazing artwork in our` Archive your December Features` discussion.
Barbie Corbett-Newmin
Congratulations, your beautiful work is featured on the Best For Blankets and Textile Products group’s homepage! Featured images are changed often; to remain visible to potential buyers who visit the group, please post your featured images in the discussion thread for the group features in 2021.
Nancy Carol Photography
Congratulations! .... Your wonderful work of art has been presented on the HomePage in the group, 'ART FOR PASSION - PASSION FOR ART'. Thanks for sharing with all of us. If you wish, you can archive it permanently or promote it further in the Discussions Tabs .... Nancy
HH Photography of Florida
I do really like the colors and design and the explanation of how you arrived with this end product. Nice work, Lori.
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