I have a few days to catch up on so will do a few in the same post rather than separately as I don’t have great deal so say about some of them.
Day 18 was a case in point. The hint was ‘Make it green‘. My interpretation of green was environmentely friendly,but I got stuck with that so reverted to some work in progress, which was partly green and that I needed to get finished. A Mariner’s Compass that I had started at a workshop using a technique called Foundation Paper Piecing. I had done a little bit in the past but our tutor introduced a different way of working which I found quite tricky but having got the hang of it, actually quite like it.
I needed to get the piece done before Friday when we had out next meeting so this was an ideal opportunity to work on that. I had already done 2 of the 4 blocks so another one achieved my challenge and only one left to do to complete the work.
Day 19 hint was ‘Make your work commercial’, which I chose to ignore because my artwork is my leisure time and if I think of it in commercial terms it becomes too stressful. Instead, I went back to some infrared images I had taken a few weeks ago but not got round to processing and I must say I was pleasantly surprised by the result. I had always been told that in order to take decent infrared images, you needed sunshine. Not so. A few months ago I listened to a talk by a photographer who does quite a lot of infrared photography and he said, you can take infrared in any conditions, you just get different results.
Clearly this image needs to be processed but you can already see some definition in the sky so I thought it had some potential. You never know what you will get with infrared though so the end result was a pleasant surprise. A number of people have thought it was a frosty morning but no, just another grey day.
Anne Bryson Photography 