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I spent some time this morning messing around in Photoshop, confirming a lot of things I’d read about color theory. I played with hue (colors), value (lightness/darkness), and chroma (saturation), and produced about twenty new samples. I won’t post them all, but here are some of the most instructive ones: First, value matters a lot, [...]
I was going to put all sorts of fiber arts stuff in the background, but realized that would only distract from the central figure. I also decided to switch to quilting (ironically, one of the few fiber arts I have NOT particularly enjoyed) because it would allow me to insert the self-referential tangram figure as [...]
As you can see, I had a lot of fun with the front cover: (The head of the figure is gilded with 24K gold leaf, a leftover from my egg art days.) The back cover is similar, only simpler: I’m kind of tempted to put curtains on the back of the book and show the [...]
I explained pages 1-4 already, and some of page 5. The narrative for page 6 is all about transformation: after sneaking past the stop sign and going down the artistic path, the figure finds itself magically transformed into a real person (a flamenco dancer, no less), dancing down the red carpet. (I know it looks [...]
Since my pin-up girl days (yes, that’s really me on the cover of that magazine, and no, I’m not wearing anything except body paint ) are over, I guess I’ll have to settle for being a pop-up girl: I’m actually pretty pleased with my pop-up girl, even in this rough version. I mixed and matched [...]
