INTRO + INITIAL MATERIALS

In all honesty to all, this piece began as a self portrait examination one saturday afternoon. A sister to this piece was being used as the header graphic at ourcommon, I modified it, and dropped the "pray for k10k" into place.

The "pray for k10k" piece is a culmination of four shots; three self portraits and the side of a taxicab. The self portraits were totally spontaneous.

  
 
 
Initial photographic images used.



  
 
 


STAGE ONE

Brought it into photoshop.
Image one is really where the dancing starts. I'll begin laying out three to four of the self-portraits, one next to the other. I'll do some simple color overlays to get the light // dark difference.

  
 
 


 
 
 


STAGE TWO

I then make big copies of the entire canvas, and then pasting them in. Transforming them 50% less each time. I might merge a couple together, flip them horizontally, and then transform again. the key is aligning the transformed pieces into a sensible grid. Defining key lines, both vertically and horizontally. You can see this develop in image two.

The colors were really interesting from the digital camera, I was wearing an orange shirt, and the color conversion was suprisingly saturated for the better.

  
 
 


 
 
 


STAGE THREE

I began screening various layers on the piece, creating the lighter // more yellow parts of the canvas. I also wound jam the yellow curves on the screened layers, to pump the brightness. I continued to do some large copy and pastes, and some diagonal chops. I liked the yellow. So I proceeded copy and paste the entire canvas into itself again, then to the right side of the canvas, where I use te same technique, but with smaller selections. you can see this develop in slide three

 

  
 
 


 
 
 


STAGE FOUR + FINAL DESIGN

I usually end this process by doing a final large copy and paste and transform horizontally. Turning down the opacity, I cut out parts following the grid wherever it may be, and turn the opacity back to 100%. I brought the yellow through the center to add some depth through the center. this is where I left it.

it's really simple repetition, a few "screens", and some fancy color.

Peter Reid - peter@ourcommon.com