A different approach entirely

This is what I did on the Tuesday before break:

Practiced transfer onto wood, thinking that the majority of my project would be creating a giant transfer on wood and then hollowing for a tree and some young sprouts.

After a detailed conversation with my uncle about alternative process and pinhole cameras over break, I have changed my project to something entirely different.

Yesterday, I made some lumen prints. I took black and white photography paper and put it in the sun for approximately 4 hours with organic matter, such as straw leaves and flowers, making patterns on top. My paper was a dark blue before I put it in the fixer.

 And turned a golden tawny tan color after the fixer.

 I am not sure whether it is supposed to be that color but I have a feeling that the brand and age of the paper might have something to do with it.  I have scanned them into photoshop and inverted the colors. I thought that the inverted colors would look great on the metal, but wanted to give myself multiple options, so I will be experimenting with both colors on the metal.

After I practice transferring them to the metal, want to bend the metal and make a pinhole camera. I might shoot from the upper deck of the ship, or I may try to focus on organic matter, much like the kinds that created the patterns in the lumen prints. Another option I have, is focusing on metal objects that look organic in shape. I decided to do this instead of the other idea I had because my original idea seemed to dead end rather quickly. I take photos, print them  large and then transfer onto wood, then hollowing out eyes or mouths and put a plant through it. I feel like this project follows along more with the theme of the class, simply because I can push it in so many different directions.




11-29 Practice Transfer to metal; Set up more lumen prints, procure some plexis for easier setup; Build pinhole models out of paper; determine whether I want to make a square camera or a circular one. 

Making it... I measured in increments of one inch. Each surface is an inch long, with half inch extensions that will overlap so I can pop rivet them together.

Finished box...

Pieces of the box. Having it laid out like this will help significantly when bending the metal. 4.5 inches long with two 1in flaps to overlap and bend in. A cap 1x1 for the end

Cylindrical model

If I try to make an end out of metal, it will probably end up having gaps  and such. So,  what I was thinking was I could create an end out of a circle of wood, slightly larger then the end of the tube. I could notch it so that the sheet metal cylinder fits inside. It would be lighttight and than I could transfer onto the wood and use some of the matte medium skills I learned before break.

Determined: I will be making a cylindrical pinhole. Have to figure out dimensions, but my model is 4 in across and the base is approx 1in.


Supersauce transfers!!!

The sauce went on and looked cracked...

12-1 Build the camera; Pop rivet, caulk the overlapping seams and paint the inside black. Hit the dark room and cut several photo papers the right size to fit in the back of the camera


**Shoot over the weekend (Or finish making the camera, depending which is more relevant) **


12-6 Shoot/ develop the photos
12-8 Make improvements and continue to work on final prints and presentation for final critique


The point is that the camera and its pieces will both be art.There is an artist (whose name I forget) who make pinhole cameras out of objects and then photographed related objects with his... It was continuous circles of art...

http://jerryburchfield.com/techniques.htm
http://www.kodak.com/ek/US/en/Pinhole_Camera.htm