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On Thursday, 21 December 2000 I was admitted to the Colours collab. Every two months, two color topics are presented -- one "traditional" and one "interpretive". Because I felt inspired, I elected to do all the topics from before I joined.
note: images on the left are clickable for larger versions
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sorrow project completed: 08 March 2002
smaller (44 k; 373x550) World Trade Center twin towers
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silver project posted: 26
March 2002
low res (50 k; 512x384) [ no comment ]
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blink project completed: 10 February 2002 The original image used is a painting by "L. Folk". I call her The Red Lady.
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clay project posted: 26
March 2002 This is my great great grandfather Henry.
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sapphire project posted: 01 November 2001 [ no comment ]
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periwinkle project completed: 31 October 2001 My favorite Crayola colors when I was little were periwinkle, sky blue, and sea green. But that lovely shade didn't inspire much when it came to this project, so I turned to the dictionary. I first read Any of several small, often edible marine snails, ... having thick, cone-shaped, whorled shells and then I read Any of several shrubby, trailing, evergreen plants .. having glossy, dark green, opposite leaves. The idea of making a snail flower got distilled into making a spiral flower. The background I created gives it an awful wallpaper look.
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swirl project completed: 26 June 2001 I began with a photograph of the seeds of the Wollemi Pine (Wollemia nobilis). After using a twirl filter to give it its spiral, I overlaid it with a photograph I took on 24June 2001 of the swirl of his hair on top of my boyfriend's head.
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I wanted to show the importance of purple by showing its absence, and I thought no venue would be better than a rainbow. I signed up for a free three-day trial of ArtToday and downloaded a photograph of a rainbow. In desaturating [removing the color from] the purple band of the rainbow, I realized how similar grey is to purple and how the blue sky made the grey look yellowish. Unsatisfied, I downloaded I line art image of a rainbow. Again, the grey looked like a sickly purple. I tried black -- the absence of color -- and then decided the photograph better captured what I was trying to do.
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white photograph taken: 31 May 2001
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decay photograph taken: 04 January 2001 the decay of light...
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black photograph taken: 29 March 2001
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sex photograph taken: Saturday, 31 March 2001 I wanted to explore the sex organ of a flower without drawing parallels to human reproduction, so I went for a subtle look with the snail alluding to "the birds and the bees" -- sex as a cyclical process of nature.
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twilight Twilight is a time of cool subtle colors -- an idea which I thwarted with my bright firey twilight sky. The original image was of wood grain. The colors were sharply contrasted and then further banded with partially transparent layers on top.
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treadmill The idea of "treadmill" as exercise equipment didn't inspire me, so I chose a play on words and combined tire tread with a pepper mill. I took the photo of the tire tread in the Bay Area after a heavy rain and was pleased with the sprinkling of yellow leaves on the rubber. I was displeased with the first pepper mill I came across and waited to capture my mother's at home in her kitchen.
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turquoise
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flesh fresh from the shower...
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coral
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butter
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corner Corporate offices provide perfect canvases.
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purple
