Scanography:  Creating digital art using a scanner to capture the image

Joseph Sheer
Using the scanner, Joseph Sheer creates images of individual moths and butterflies.  He does so in the vein of cataloguing - for the most part keeping them individual so they are of and about the single subject.  Although not so elaborate, what appeals to me is the specific connection between science and art.  The images examine the various physical characteristics of countless species in a minimal format - accentuating their natural beauty in an artistic way.  In this he creates a simple but strong bridge between science and art which is easily accessible and open to anyone through books and shows and therefore exhibiting and reexploring that solid connection which has really always been.
   

coloradia pandora davisi male

coloradia pandora davisi female

Janet Dwyer
Janet Dwyer scans natural objects, mostly flowers and plants, and then makes arrangements out fo the parts to establish a narrative.  She uses simple juxtapositions to make different flower shapes behave in different ways. For example, the flower petal or bud can stand in for a foot  or simply a symbol of softness, etc.  In the second example, she defines the flower part as a hand by displaying a doll hand in the picture - you are then forced to recognize the similar shaped yellow flower as hands themselves.

TC Pool - Memory/Future

(original route was to show visually show the memory)

Picture

This is the picture I took last class for our upcoming project(s).  It's taken in the old pool at TC.  I chose this picture in particular as it had a nice range of geometric shapes to work with as well as a beautiful color scheme.

Daniel Schwarz

I came across Daniel Schwarz through a link on Rhizome.org.  He is what I would consider a "New Media" artist, using various technologies for his work.  As far photography is concerned, he made a series of desolate landscapes made from satellite views through Google Maps.  He lays two images from the same site during different weather patterns adjacent to one another resulting in a brief description of time and change for the given area.

He also makes these really nice videos projecting two dimensional geometric forms in motion onto three dimensional geometric forms.  It's an interesting play between worlds that creates really beautiful moving landscapes.

(stills from Vanish)

(still from Piece of Paper)

Photography

James Welling

James Welling uses a variety of different techniques to achieve these really beautiful photographs while mostly sticking to the standard, two-dimensional photography format.  What particularly stood out for me was how in many cases, he revisits old photography techniques (such as photograms and filters) in his work but the result is quite contemporary in design and material.  Below are a few examples of some of his photographs of the Glass House.  It is worth mentioning that there are very little "after effects" or digital editing done to these.  He uses various filters in the actual picture taking process to accentuate different colors and pushing shadow and reflections in really beautiful ways.  Welling also talks very intently about these photographs being metaphors for the experience of the site which lends a great overview of the work.

(examples from Glass House series)

(example from Photograms series)

(examples from Flowers series)

Painting to Digital Painting

(above is an example of a finished painting)

(this is an attempt to follow the same "rules" of transparencies, non unique parts, etc common in my painting practice using digital paint program.  Both the image and the approach in the program was much more clear, the conversion to jpeg seemed to have lost some of the nuances.  The end result either way however was that the program seemed more useful for sketching my idea (as far as color choices, frequency, range, etc)  rather than a finished product.  

Ipad painting

Ipad painting