5/12/2012 Experimenting with Manipulation

Distressing and destroying has become a new theme, with the photographs of abandoned and worn down buildings that I have taken. I tried manipulating and distressing fabrics by burning them with a heat gun, some really interesting outcomes were reached as shown in the images.

Later I experimented more with the overpainting that Richard had previously taught us. I overpained the black and white image with just white paint, simply dimming and hiding the harsh lines or the photo, then I cut and scraped back into the image to highlight the outlines of the flowers. This has worked particularly well and I want to work this into my images of abandoned buildings.