Here is “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”. I took this one into New Horizon’s a few days ago and it’s one of the 3 or so paintings that will be in the video clip that AlaskaOne is producing. And he’s going to work in some of Zoe and Finn’s artwork as well. And I believe that photos of my mother, my grandmother, and one of my mother’s paintings (of Grandaddy Friedrich) will be used in the montage as well. My family is going to LOVE it.
Michael Letzring showed me some of the equipment they use to produce and, let me tell you, it was gadget heaven down there. Huge double monitors, lightning fast processors, and enough buttons and dials to feel like a jet pilot. It was geek heaven, Photoshop on steroids!! Just the filters alone that were available in his software were enough to make me giddy. He ran one called “Mary” over my face and it made me look like I just stepped out of a Renaissance painting, all chiariscuroed and soft. Someone should invent a holographic projector that you can wear as a necklace and just project that filter 24/7 onto my face. Who needs plastic surgery? I should have been an inventor…
But I think I’ll just stick to painting, thank you very much. That’s invention enough for me. I’m still studying Klimt, obviously. Trying to figure out how his compositions work. I’m amazed at how well he creates dynamic compositions from rather static fields of shape. Color appears to be the trick. Color and the presence of larger shapes that are void of the smaller, repetitive shapes that make up most of the composition. The man was a genius. His Beethoven Freize (this photo is one it’s side–the whole thing is 34 meters long) is absolutely enormous and I can’t imagine the sheer number of hours he must have spent with a paintbrush over the course of his life. They say that 10,000 hours is the magic number that separates the genius from the dilettante. I don’t know how many hours I have to go before I’m even half the artist Klimt was, but I look forward to every single one.
Madara Hill 