Thursday, November 11, 2010

Shine Over Mountains Final

I finished Shine Over Mountains yesterday afternoon, but there was not enough natural light left to get a good slide image for the final image (which will be later used for printing purposes).  Those with keen eyes may notice that this final image has a slight blue tint in some spots that all the previous progression images lacked.  This is a result of two things.  First, although I was only using Bone Black and Titanium White as my pigments, both of those have traces of blue in them and when you severely dilute the paint like I did, then those small traces become more apparent. In general, black pigments are composed of many dark pigments, which when diluted break apart and reveal their true colors.  It's kinda like how I used a black marker that turns purple for my watercolor marker paintings or the black pen that turns blue for the watercolor pen paintings.    The second reason for the blue tint, or rather why it isn't visible in the progression images, is because all of those where shot with unnatural light in a room at night, which made the blue tint way too exaggerated, so I simply converted them to black and white.  However, for this final image I wanted it to be as true to life as possible, so I waited until this morning to use sunlight and chose not to convert the image to black and white.



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