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CONFETTI ART (DOT ART)
Simon Cowell
February 09 - May 09
Approx number of dots
190,000
I know what you are going to say, why Simon Cowell?
In 2008 i stuck both my other dot pictures, over 2,000
hours sticking dots in 9 months with just a few weeks
off in the summer. That is alot of time sat at home with
the T.V for company. Before the Dot life i bearly knew
who Simon Cowell was because i never watched t.v (only
that my friend had a crush on him)
Sticking In Siene and Lewis meant that i had the television
on alot to keep me company. No matter what day
it was or what time of year it was, there was one constant.
Mr Cowell. He was everywhere! Between American Idol, Britains
got tallent and X Factor, plus all their extra side shows
i felt like he was keeping me company whilst i was working.
Now i am not saying that they are my favorate T.V shows,
but how many times can you watch your box sets and F1
re-runs? for instance i re-watched all 14 series of E.R
but that only took about a month i was running out of
T.V fast, (that is my excuse anyway!)
I saw more of simon Cowell last year than i did my own
friends and family, and i began to like watching him.
I love his cutting remarks to the tallent challenged contestants,
i love the faces he pulls, but what i love the most is
that you never know what is going to come out of his mouth.
But best of all i like the little smirk he gets, and the
little glint in his eye when he has found someone with
a true tallent. So that is why Simon. I saw so much of
him i feet like we were old friends, he certaimly kept
me entertained, and i needed to do my next picture, i
wanted it to be another portrait because for technique
advances i wanted to be able to compare it to Lewis.
The Point of this was that i was not totally happy with
the Lewis picture in that some parts of the highlights
on his head especailly was too defined, i wanted to use
simon as an exercise to learn to blend more. This picture
for me is a middle step between lewis and getting to a
point where the viewer cannot see the completed image
close up at all. I thing it will take me another step
in between Simon and one i can do a "magic eye"
dot picture (where the final image will not be recognisable
at all close up), but i did manage to achieve this on
his ears and on his mouth which when close up are not
visable to the viewer at all.
if you walk away from your computer you will see his
mouth appear more clearly, and this is already a slightly
removed image as the dots are bigger and the viewer can
get closer up in real life than the picture my camera
will take.
So with simon i have moved foreward again.
In Seine- 2 different experiences, the picture as a whole,
and the fact there are dots close up.
Lewis - Optical Mixing learning to mix the colours, the
colours are wrong close up and the eye blends the colour,
3 different experiences.
Simon, - all the techniques as above but now the blending
practice added do that parts of the whole picture dissapear
close up and there is no definition in that area just
dots. It is so important to me to learn with each picture
to improve the next one. Practice makes perfect so they
say, whoever they me be.
Maggie is glad mummy is done, now we can spend more time
at the park.
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