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AN ARCHIVE OF MY OLDER WORK - AN EXHIBITION SPACE FOR ORIGINAL AND ALTERNATE VERSIONS OF MANIPULATED WORKS THAT APPEAR AT MICKMATHERSARTBLOG - A PARKING PLACE FOR SELECTED GRAPHICS USED IN OTHER BLOG SIDEBARS - AN ARTWORK IN AND OF ITSELF

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In its short-sightedness, blogger has turned its back on those of us stuck with old operating systems and I'm forced to find a new blog host. You will now find MickMathersARTblog at Blog.com - use the direct link found in the masthead and remember to update your bookmarks. This place will continue as another archive for a large body of my work. As many of you know, my primary medium and working method is digital collage composed of manipulated photographs often combined with digital drawing & generative images. Netlabels, bands and musicians can view samples of my CD Cover Art at Mick Mather Illustration located on Tumblr. In another life I was an Arts & Culture consultant specializing in revitalization planning through creative public art projects and programs with Economic & Community Development Departments of towns, villages and cities. In these hard financial times this work is more important than ever and I still accept consultancy inquiries. You can contact me by email at: mickmather@yahoo.com

Saturday, October 20, 2007

A tribute to the Finnish Sisters: Part II -

"Finnish Cottage - Study #1"
fractal flame by Mick Mather
If you got here from MICKMATHERSARTBLOG, here are four (4) progressive studies that make up today's post over there. This is the original crop taken from a flame in one of my fractal generators where the only manipulation was to resize it for my working frame. That left things really grainy, jaggedly and loose, a lot like a sketch using colored pencils or pastels in a way.

"Finnish Cottage - Study #2"
digitally manipulated flame by Mick Mather

The next step in the process was to change the background color. That was easily accomplished in the fractal generator and a necessary step to achieve the final, night time tint. That's right, we're thinking ahead and all the way to the end right from the beginning.

"Finnish Cottage - Study #3"
digitally manipulated flame by Mick Mather
Layering the two previous flames was the next step in the process before running the composite through another filter to add a little atmosphere to the mix.

"Finnish Cottage - Study #4"
digitally manipulated flame by Mick Mather
The composite of layers 1 and 2 were run thru the same filter a second time to have some choices in patterning and light. It was then layered into Study #3 as seen above. One more filtering maneuver was used and layered into Study #4, seen here, to achieve the final image. If you arrived here from somewhere else and want to see it, go to MICKMATHERSARTBLOG.

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