Cath Sheard Art

Tag: photos

How do YOU see yourself?
I got behind the camera and what did I see?

Greying hair
Tired eyes
43 year old problem skin
Too many chins
Chipped nail polish

But hang on, what else do I see?

A loving wife
A daughter who has been caring for her mother for 8+ years
A sister, auntie and friend
A good employee who knows she is valued by her employers
An artist, scrapbooker, photographer, fabric artist

How do you see yourself? Are you kinder to others than you are to yourself? Probably!

Why not be kind to yourself this weekend – I bet you deserve it.
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March 8, 2008
Playing with the scenery
I took a pile of photos last night of the Tasman Sea, some farm hedges, sheep etc.

I have been playing round with combining semi-transparent photos, some in colour, some black and white. Just thinking through ideas, looking for possibilities…
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March 6, 2008
More fluffing with photos
I have an exhibition in Wellington later this year, and am working through some options with my tutor. Here’s some of the latest try-outs.
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February 13, 2008
Process
My art studies continue to focus on process. For the last few weeks I have been playing round with photos.

The basic process is this: take the photo, manipulate in Photoshop. Print out then colour with oil pastels, mask areas with masking tape, roughen up the surface with sandpaper, bleach with Janola, smear with acrylic paints. Then re-scan into computer.

It’s all about the process…
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February 5, 2008
Inspiration from nature
Sometimes I paint from what is in my head, sometimes I paint from what is right in front of me, sometimes a combination of both.

Then there are times when I kind of know what I want – a shape or a colour or a pattern. That’s when I turn to my visual diaries. I have photos, newspaper cuttings, pictures out of magazines, off the internet, from all kinds of places. I look through them and often the answer is right there, tucked away “just in case”.

Over the Christmas break I went out into our gardens with my digital camera and took heaps of photos, looking at colour, texture, pattern, shadow…

Here’s one of the photos that will get glued into the first of this year’s visual diaries. This is a silver dollar gum tree. I love the colours. Pretty huh?
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January 16, 2008