![]() ![]() And while I did not become a practitioner like my brother, it did lead me to begin my series of photography-based kaleidoscopic artwork. ![]() In January of 2011, I attended an inspirational seminar, Matrix Energetics. I was frustrated and needed another artistic outlet. The results were beautiful, but the cost was too high to make them profitable. I wanted to have my designs custom printed on silk to make into prayer shawls ( tallit). I was working on Judaic Art but had hit a roadblock. I prepare the selected foundlings in Adobe Photoshop using a technique called masking (think of a digital X-acto with a lot more control). I gather the masked foundling into layers and manipulate the light and shadow to enhance the illusion of depth in the finished artwork.Ĭategories Creating Artwork, Demonstrations, Flowers, Inspiration, Kaleidoscope Art, Uncategorized Tags art process, artist, Artmatic, bird of paradise, botanical, digital art, digital photography, kaleidoscope, Karen Hochman Brown, origin, photoshop, symmetry Leave a comment Masked foundlingĪfter creating several foundlings, I examine them in large scale-sorting, selecting and sometimes creating more, as the artwork requires. ![]() I call the resulting images “foundlings.” I collect the foundlings and tuck them away in a folder, preparing for a digital collage. The key-framing process allows an image to be animated over time (videos) however, for this series, I only capture the still frames, instructing the software to render the kaleidoscopic reflections. Interesting results are saved as key-frames that can be rendered into large-scale graphic files. The photograph is filtered through a variety of mathematical transformations-stretched, bent and reflected through fractals, polar space and fun-house mirrors. I import the base image into a graphic synthesizer program (ArtMatic) for manipulation. Pay special attention to the blue-violet flower petal speckled in dewdrops emerging from the structural flower’s beak-like sheath or spathe. They come together for a natural display of secondary colors. The sturdy purple and orange blossom shows up against a muted green background. As you might have guessed, the subject is the bird of paradise flower. I’m going to use as an example the piece Bird O Paradise. Add expansion packs to increase the your tool kit or upgrade to Designer and customize your favorite presets.Bird Paradise base image Artmatic graphic synthesizerĮvery one of my kaleidoscopic artworks starts with a photograph. Edit a Designer system and change its parameters and monitor in a realtime the 3D update in the Voyager preview window.Įxplorer (“Designer Lite”) let’s you quickly modify Designer presets and rapidly generate content. The realtime communication between Designer + Voyager allows you to use them as one “meta application”. Use it to create landscapes from 2D Designer images, populate with 3D models that respond to sound, and plot fly throughs of alien worlds. Voyager is a 3D renderer for the ArtMatic engine. Each expand the possibilities of the others in unique ways.ĭesigner is a modular synthesizer for creating 2D Graphics, 3D models, Sound Design, and Music, but it is also a 3D model editor for Voyager. The ArtMatic engine is the heart of a suite of integrated applications. ArtMatic: Designer, Voyager, and Explorer Images, motion graphics, video effects, sounds, and 3D worlds creation for artists ![]()
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