Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Organic Abstraction

I used today to work on my Ansel Adams chops, making natural things look abstract in black & white macro studies. Then with each one I went one step further and created a monochromatic study on the black & white.

A rose is a rose

Blue Rose (an hommage to Peter Straub)

Poinsettia leaf

Arroyos

Speaking of artists named Adams, here's a little piece by composer John Adams (Shaker Loops, Nixon in China): "Cerulean", from his 1993 CD of synthesizer pieces, Hoodoo Zephyr.

Photos © 2011 by A. Roy Hilbinger
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5 comments:

  1. UnknownJanuary 18, 2011 at 6:54 PM

    Beautiful images--I especially like "Arroyos"

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  2. Betsy BrockJanuary 18, 2011 at 10:09 PM

    Very cool! That poinsettia leaf looks like leather!

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  3. BainoJanuary 19, 2011 at 3:50 AM

    Lovely. Wish I had time to play with images. I really must learn photoshop. The leaf's very textureed, like rhino skin~

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  4. Alan BurnettJanuary 19, 2011 at 9:45 AM

    The shapes in those first two studies are wonderful. Almost desert-like in some ways, the way the lines flow and bend.

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  5. mouse (aka kimy)January 19, 2011 at 2:22 PM

    nice channeling of ansel adams!

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