A PHOTOMOSAIC
Now tell me how they do that. I am impressed when an artist can take a very small image, put it with other very small images, match the color and shading and all the other stuff that goes into creating such a picture and make it look just like the person in the photograph. Amazing!
I never created much art work in my day except for a horse I drew and never could duplicate it when I was about 11. I guess I had one work in me and that was it. Hey, it happened with Harper Lee and others. But some relatives of mine, doubting my ability, claimed I must have traced the drawing. I didn't but how do you prove that you didn't and didn't get any help?
That's another thing, as I glanced at the photomosaic again: why do some old people like to do jigsaw puzzles? I mean they can't see as well, their fingers don't work as well. And it's darned hard work. I had an aunt, Aunt Bertha believe it or not, who loved the small, small 1,000 piece puzzles. She worked them all the time.
If a puzzle had more than 25 pieces, and wasn't as large as poster board, I'd lose interest. Maybe that's why geometry wasn't my thing either. I like stuff I can force to make it fit. My goodness, the things I've broken in my life with that credo. "All it needs is a little elbow grease, a little more force, a tad more pressure." Right.
An exercise in drawing for beginners is to take a photo and grid it into smaller pieces and try to draw or match what's in the small grid. Then when completed, you have a picture similar to the photo only with the little squares all over.
Maybe that was the idea behind the mosaics. But they're not uniform in size, so as I said earlier, I'm impressed.
Now tell me how they do that. I am impressed when an artist can take a very small image, put it with other very small images, match the color and shading and all the other stuff that goes into creating such a picture and make it look just like the person in the photograph. Amazing!
I never created much art work in my day except for a horse I drew and never could duplicate it when I was about 11. I guess I had one work in me and that was it. Hey, it happened with Harper Lee and others. But some relatives of mine, doubting my ability, claimed I must have traced the drawing. I didn't but how do you prove that you didn't and didn't get any help?
That's another thing, as I glanced at the photomosaic again: why do some old people like to do jigsaw puzzles? I mean they can't see as well, their fingers don't work as well. And it's darned hard work. I had an aunt, Aunt Bertha believe it or not, who loved the small, small 1,000 piece puzzles. She worked them all the time.
If a puzzle had more than 25 pieces, and wasn't as large as poster board, I'd lose interest. Maybe that's why geometry wasn't my thing either. I like stuff I can force to make it fit. My goodness, the things I've broken in my life with that credo. "All it needs is a little elbow grease, a little more force, a tad more pressure." Right.
An exercise in drawing for beginners is to take a photo and grid it into smaller pieces and try to draw or match what's in the small grid. Then when completed, you have a picture similar to the photo only with the little squares all over.
Maybe that was the idea behind the mosaics. But they're not uniform in size, so as I said earlier, I'm impressed.
posted by TQ @ 7:14 AM
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