Okay, I know this is weird... It required a very old National Geographic magazine and Citra Solv® orange-scented cleaner. The process is that you open up the magazine, find pages that appeal to you, and spritz them with Citra Solv®. You close up the magazine, mooshing the pages together. About 15 minutes later you begin opening the pages. The inks have run, pages have stuck together, and the results are often bizarre, abstract, weird, and fascinating. Sometimes the photos on the page are readily apparent (albeit altered) and sometimes they're completely obscured.
In this case, the face was partly obscured. I photographed the altered magazine page and then added a texture layer to muck up the image even more than it was. To me it now looks like a woman peering through a window, perhaps through a sheer curtain, on a train, at night. Fun stuff!
©Carol Leigh, who has a brain exploding with artistic possibilities and a kitchen that smells overmuch like oranges...
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
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7 comments:
CL, only you could come up with this exquisite image. Never an end to your creativity.
Gisela (on her way back from AZ to NC)
Happy traveling to you, Gisela. Hope you had fun in the Arizona sun.
I love it. You take an all purpose cleaner and make it do something it was never intended to do and you come up with a portrait of a lovely women peering from behind lace curtains out a window on a rainy day. Wow!
Ah, I wish I could claim that I invented this idea, but it's been around for some time. Collage artists use Citra Solv to make interesting papers for use in their work. Since I'm a camera sort of gal, I photographed the papers I made. This way I can use the original in a collage if I wish, and the digital version in a photomontage (or two, or three). Can you say "obsessed?"
Very cool and impressionistic. Must be all the rainy weather keeping you locked up inside. :-)
Alan
Love love love this. Must get me some of that magic cleaner. Wait, then I need an old magazine. Where on earth do you keep all this stuff you pull out? You must have a magician's hat for a closet.
Sarah, no magician's hat, but I do have a magic Chris, who built me a combination photo/art studio in the back of the garage. It's 7' deep and 25'wide. Lots of bookcases, counter space, shelves, and plastic tubs! I should post photos sometime. --CL
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