doing things by halves....
A friend and fellow bubbler gottheshot wrote me with a great suggestion for doing half coloured in images to show the before and after effects. As a child, he recalled having a book which had the images only half coloured and it came with a little mirror, so you placed the mirror in the centre, and could see the rest of the image coloured in, like magic… thank you very much gottheshot as you can see, I’ve been having a bit of a play around doing this, and added each of these images to the actual artwork now, all thanx to you!
ps my work is not symmetrical, so these aren’t exactly halves, but it would be fun to get a little mirror and try this out, and i’m going to do that shortly, lol
Varry
Gosh what a great idea Karin,great to see the before and after,fabulous work as always.x
Karin Taylor
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it was an interesting thing to do, and strange to me just how subtle the colours are, i hadn’t realised! thank you very much Varry! :) x
Mui-Ling Teh
Very interesting Karin. You know this is getting me thinking about your last journal. You know in the end of that video there was the drawings where on one side was the man’s face and on the other was the woman’s? And the fact that your’s are not symmetrical is also making me think how you talked about interesting characteristics of an imperfect face. Well I can agree there when I think of symmetry; I think I’ve seen some experiments done where people mirrored one side of their face and it looked a bit… funny~. But I’ve also have heard something about assymtrical faces being beautiful; well I certainly find it more expressive.
But this has been very interesting to see Karin, it has indeed so thank you for sharing :D
Karin Taylor
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thanks Mui-Ling, it’s really interesting, as although some of my works look symmetrical they really aren’t…one trick i use tho…is i often cut and paste the left eye and stick it over the right eye, then flip it horizontally….as long as the eyes are exact, it seems to look good…it’s when the eyes are wrong shape that the painting looks wonky i’ve found… anyway, Mui-Ling, I have found this fascinating link from Dr Karl a well known scientist here in Australia…i hope you enjoy the read when you get a chance :)
rodeorose
What a great idea- so effective!
Karin Taylor
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thanx Rosie…all gottheshot’s great idea :) x
Jakki O
That’s cool x
Karin Taylor
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hey thanx Jak! :) xxxxxxxxxx
yanmos
nice idea karin, looks very good!!
Pip Gerard
now I look at them.. most of them are very symmetrical… especially the affirmation & blue pools one.
Karen Cook
What a brilliant concept, who would have thought it would look so effective!
sandra22
Karin…you are a talented lady. I especially like the Blue pools.
love sandra
EarthGipsy
Great suggestion by gottheshot and interpreted by you – very interesting to see how you develop the work. Love your work!
Artsez
Thats really interesting Karin! I love seeing how you go about the colouring there. Great idea!
ROUBLE RUST
The idea is amazing – they’re looking really great Karin xxx Interesting game :)
Linda Callaghan
very interesting Karin…..good to see the before and after ! x
barnsis
What a great idea, very well done on the match up. excellent
CanDuCreations
This is also wonderful, but I think I love the colored and solo colored ones seperately more.
Karin Taylor
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Yeah I get what you’re saying … And thx…. these aren’t for sale as prints,I’ve just done them to show the difference between the drawing and the coloured version… Then I add these to the description ofthe full colour one :)
micklyn
excellent! I especially like the last one, with the little bunny’s head in colour… I think it works all the better because they’re NOT symmetrical, I suppose you could choose that way where to put the emphasis ( :
lacitrouille
Lovely to view them like this. :)