WE LEARN FROM OUR MISTAKES. PART 4

CHIPPEWAH 10 , Experimenting with Modes in Photoshop. Unfinished.

 

CHIPPEWAH 10 – This time I ADDED  LAYER 3, into top position. Dancing Around White,  

            Shown below, Mode - Multiply

            Background Layer, Chippewah,  Mode Normal

            Layer 1, KP Mod, - second from top, Mode- Multiply, Flipped horizontally

                    Notice the linear arrangement has changed from the previous orientation.

            Layer 2 Pale Blue Dawn, second from bottom, Mode Luminosity

 

Hi  Blog Viewers –

In the last post, June 4, 2014, where CHIPPEWAH 7 was shown on my blog?  I explained  I would not use that piece as a finished composition, but only to show the dramatic color difference resulting from mode changes. This was meant to show a technique to be helpful to viewers, but not to be an example of a finished composition.

Although I am pleased that Google is showing my Abstract Art posts and my new images,  clearly I do not know the criteria for what is shown, and usually no text accompanies the images  to explain to viewers what is the bad, the good or the ugly.

The next two pieces were clearly much more satisfying, and I would wish one of them had appeared as a promotion, if that was the intent. The image above is closer to being  finished. Not yet done, I would change the contrast, and perhaps lighten it, among other choices, to feel it is complete.

So in the future, I will place the most satisfactory images at the top of my post, and the sequence of changes may not be in order. But I believe that people learn from making mistakes, and others too, can learn from mine. I will not exclude the steps in the development of an art piece, because readers might learn more by showing the problems that come up along the way to the finished work.

But perhaps the better images will be promoted by placing them at the top of the post. If I were having a show of my work, I would certainly want all of them to be as good as I can make them, and I would want all the images to be a consistent body of finished work. That is not the focus of a blog, but rather to share the process of creating artwork with anyone who is interested

I will show the settings and changes, as usual, and hopefully followers can sort this out.

Dancing Around White, Organic Abstract. Another  Textured Layer Adds to the Variations Possible When Changing Modes.

As can be seen, working with more layers allows even more possible variations. Care must be taken to save the originals and the preferred results as separate documents with unique names.  With many layers it is possible to run out of memory, and the main document must be closed and saved to really preserve the changes made. (Photoshop saves 20 steps or more so the artist can go backward, but
that uses memory.) Closing the document preserves it at the stage of closing.

CHIPPEWAH  11, Another  Change in Mode Settings Produced Another Configuration of Colors. Unfinished.

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CHIPPEWAH 11 – Dancing Around White Layer 3 in top position. Mode – Saturation.

            Background Layer, Chippewah, Mode Normal

            Layer 1, KP Mod, - Top position, Mode- Multiply,

            Layer 2, Pale Blue Dawn, second up from bottom, Mode Luminosity

I would enjoy any feedback from viewers. After all, this is my motivation for sharing my work. If you have questions, please ask and I will try to answer on this blog. Thanks


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