I have now created a series of edited textures, all of which I think are good images but not something I could really use on their own as final pieces. I want to try and not just present photographs as my final piece because I know that this can be something I do as I don't necessarily find photography particularly challenging.
I have had two ideas. One of which involves textures all being different, and therefore individual with their own different personalities. I would like to find pieces of text that correspond to every texture image I have.
The other idea I have had is to do with the colours in texture, and the colour charts that you get at home decorating shops.
Tuesday, 8 March 2011
Sunday, 6 March 2011
CONTACT SHEETS OF TEXTURES
I took these images when I visited the Victoria and Albert Museum the other day. They focused on textures, mainly on walls.
Sunday, 27 February 2011
SALT PHOTOGRAMS
I love these images. I used salt on top of the paper and love the texture its created. I moved card over the paper to get the square look, and would love to try out this effect over projected negatives to create/enhance texture on the images.
basic PHOTOGRAM
I created basic photograms by just overlaying different materials onto the paper, such as buttons, lace, and developer wheels.
Images from Inside V&A
Interesting patterns on display, particularly loved the marbled walls and floor, and the ironwork.
EXHIBITION
I visited the V&A Cameraless Photography Exhibition. Before visiting this, I was stuck, with no ideas and no motivation. This may be the most inspiring exhibition I have ever been to.
TEXTURE
1. A structure of interwoven fibers or other elements.
2. The distinctive physical composition or structure of something, especially with respect to the size, shape, and arrangment of its parts: the texture of sandy soil; the texture of cooked fish.
3.
a. The appearance and feel of a surface: the smooth texture of soap.
b. A rough or grainy surface quality: Brick walls give a room texture.
4. Distinctive or identifying quality or character: "an intensely meditative poet [who] conveys the religious and cultural texture of time spent in a Benedictine monastery" (New York Times).
5. The quality given to a piece of art, literature, or music by the interrelationship of its elements: "The baroque influence in his music is clear here, with the harmonic complexity and texture" (Rachelle Roe).
(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/texture)
–noun
1.the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface: rough texture.
2.the characteristic structure of the interwoven or intertwined threads, strands, or the like, that make up a textile fabric: coarse texture.
3.the characteristic physical structure given to a material, an object, etc., by the size, shape, arrangement, and proportions of its parts: soil of a sandy texture; a cake with a heavy texture.
4.an essential or characteristic quality; essence.
5.Fine Arts .
a.the characteristic visual and tactile quality of the surface of a work of art resulting from the way in which the materials are used.
b.the imitation of the tactile quality of represented objects.
6.the quality given, as to a musical or literary work, by the combination or interrelation of parts or elements.
7.a rough or grainy surface quality.
8.anything produced by weaving; woven fabric.
–verb (used with object)
9.to give texture or a particular texture to.
10.to make by or as if by weaving.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/texture)
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(http://thesaurus.com/browse/texture?rh=www.google.co.uk&__utma=1.1143507092.1298804419.1298804419.1298804419.1&__utmb=1.2.9.1298804419092&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1298804419.1.1.utmcsr=google%7Cutmccn=(organic)%7Cutmcmd=organic%7Cutmctr=texture%20dictionary&__utmv=-&__utmk=186269225)
2. The distinctive physical composition or structure of something, especially with respect to the size, shape, and arrangment of its parts: the texture of sandy soil; the texture of cooked fish.
3.
a. The appearance and feel of a surface: the smooth texture of soap.
b. A rough or grainy surface quality: Brick walls give a room texture.
4. Distinctive or identifying quality or character: "an intensely meditative poet [who] conveys the religious and cultural texture of time spent in a Benedictine monastery" (New York Times).
5. The quality given to a piece of art, literature, or music by the interrelationship of its elements: "The baroque influence in his music is clear here, with the harmonic complexity and texture" (Rachelle Roe).
(http://www.thefreedictionary.com/texture)
–noun
1.the visual and especially tactile quality of a surface: rough texture.
2.the characteristic structure of the interwoven or intertwined threads, strands, or the like, that make up a textile fabric: coarse texture.
3.the characteristic physical structure given to a material, an object, etc., by the size, shape, arrangement, and proportions of its parts: soil of a sandy texture; a cake with a heavy texture.
4.an essential or characteristic quality; essence.
5.Fine Arts .
a.the characteristic visual and tactile quality of the surface of a work of art resulting from the way in which the materials are used.
b.the imitation of the tactile quality of represented objects.
6.the quality given, as to a musical or literary work, by the combination or interrelation of parts or elements.
7.a rough or grainy surface quality.
8.anything produced by weaving; woven fabric.
–verb (used with object)
9.to give texture or a particular texture to.
10.to make by or as if by weaving.
(http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/texture)
arrangement, balance, being, character, coarseness, composition, consistency, constitution, disposition, essence, essentiality, fabric, feel, feeling, fiber, fineness, flexibility, form, framework, grain, intermixture, make, makeup, nap, nature, organization, pattern, quality, roughness, scheme, sense, smoothness, stiffness, strategy, structure, surface, taste, tissue, touch, warp, weave, web, woof, airy, anatomical, coarse, coarse, distressed, filmy, fine, fine, grainy, graniform, granuliform, homespun, ligneous, maladive, organic, papuliferous, pimpled, pitted, rimulose, sandy, scobiform, structural, studded, subtile, textile, textural, tumulose, woofy, structure (form), organization, anatomy, frame, mold, fabric, construction; framework, carcass, architecture; stratification, cleavage., substance, stuff, compages, parenchyma; constitution, staple, organism., [Science of structures] organography, osteology, myology, splanchnology, neurology, angiography, adeology; angiography, adenography., texture, surface texture; intertexture, contexture; tissue, grain, web, surface; warp and woof, warp and weft; tooth, nap (roughness); fineness of grain; coarseness of grain, dry goods, structural, organic; anatomic, anatomical., textural, textile; fine grained, coarse grained; fine, delicate, subtile, gossamery, filmy, silky, satiny; coarse; homespun, character, entity, essence, essentia, essentiality, individuality, marrow, personality, quintessence, self, soul, spirit, substance, texture.
(http://thesaurus.com/browse/texture?rh=www.google.co.uk&__utma=1.1143507092.1298804419.1298804419.1298804419.1&__utmb=1.2.9.1298804419092&__utmc=1&__utmx=-&__utmz=1.1298804419.1.1.utmcsr=google%7Cutmccn=(organic)%7Cutmcmd=organic%7Cutmctr=texture%20dictionary&__utmv=-&__utmk=186269225)
Beginning.
I always begin a new project by brainstorming. Finding definitions of the word and then creating pages of word associations, thesaurus entries, dictionary definitions. This Unit is already particularly hard for me, having missed so much of this course because I was sick and already missing a lot of this term due to having my appendix out. This Unit is again hard because I do not feel like I have a starting point, there is no word I can research, no task I have been set.
So I'm going to start by looking at two things that interest me. Texture, and Urban Landscapes. I love cities, I love little details you can find on journeys and photographing things that are not normally noticed. For this Unit I am going to keep both a sketchbook containing practical work and to make notes and ideas in , and this blog which will contain all of my work, practical, ideas, information about artists and exhibitions I have visited.
So I'm going to start by looking at two things that interest me. Texture, and Urban Landscapes. I love cities, I love little details you can find on journeys and photographing things that are not normally noticed. For this Unit I am going to keep both a sketchbook containing practical work and to make notes and ideas in , and this blog which will contain all of my work, practical, ideas, information about artists and exhibitions I have visited.
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