Still playing around with monotone flowers. these were all yellow and too bright for my moody tastes. I am still looking for a somewhat antiquey look even thought these are not color - they still have that soft aged look (I hope!)
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Still playing around with monotone flowers. these were all yellow and too bright for my moody tastes. I am still looking for a somewhat antiquey look even thought these are not color - they still have that soft aged look (I hope!)
feedback welcome
Love them, Ruth! Well done. These certainly capture the look you wanted. Can't think of a thing I'd change. (Later note: there are some artifacts in the shadow areas. especially in the second.)
You're certainly not locked into a narrow way of doing things. You have a way with flowers in particular, and your inky "trees" evoke floral imagery for me; to some extent they use floral colours. The images here are an entirely more formal sombre thing, and no less beautiful for that. Your compositions are great.
I particularly like the second, for the composition - and those whiskers! It calls to mind Karl Blossfeldt's flowers in its strict formal simplicity.
I've just noticed that the third is in very unsaturated colour, and perhaps the yellow dialled out.The flowers sound beautiful in colour! I'm not one for colours that "pop", to use that term beloved in the USA, with its cultural fondness for bright, lively things. But instead I think of the Dutch "Golden Century" and other vanitas paintings, which we only know through aged oil paintings with their appealing patination. So I picture you using these flowers, perhaps in less formal compositions, with a dark, warm, subdued palette, and a dark background, as here, to create another moody look.
I will definitely give this some thought Chris. I also am not a 'big color' fan in this type of work. I will be pondering your suggestion! It is such a gift to have ideas for future work given. I can see you, Amos, Jeremy and the rest of the gang in my work and I am so grateful.