Xara, photographs and pen drawing.
Exploring images for use on a CD cover for an ‘ambient electronic soundscapes’ album, working title ‘Asylum Bridge’, by a musician friend of mine.
Xara, photographs and pen drawing.
Exploring images for use on a CD cover for an ‘ambient electronic soundscapes’ album, working title ‘Asylum Bridge’, by a musician friend of mine.
Last edited by masque; 27 April 2008 at 05:31 PM.
"Come in out of the dry and wet yourself by this tap". Spike Milligan
http://www.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/mar07/
http://www.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/aug10/
http://www.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/dc2/index.htm
Sure is, can't see the bridge though, I see a few shadows that resemble posts!
Nicely moodyDon't know whether it's deliberate but the fence mid-right drew my eyes straight away as it looks like a music stave
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very nice Derek - but very dark - not much detail to be seen on my LCD/srgb monitor - I only know thats a balloon because that's the image title - thought at first it was a red moon
interesting point John - now you come to mention it...
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Image size increased a little as it is dark and vague details hard to see such as the string on the balloon. Music stave was not deliberate and I haven’t decided what to do with a bridge as yet though I have a drawing I'm working on; still playing, but I've added a figure which I was working towards when I first posted.
The Asylum Bridge is something very specific and needs working into the image or a completely different image being built around it.
"Come in out of the dry and wet yourself by this tap". Spike Milligan
http://www.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/mar07/
http://www.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/aug10/
http://www.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/dc2/index.htm
Don't know what the specific bridge is of course, but as it is (and as I see it, for what that's worth) the image is going from light to dark - with perhaps a glimpse of light on the 'other side' - and the child is a bit of the light going into the dark with the balloon guiding ... a bridge in a way. I realise that's probably way off the mark (it's not a guessing game) it's just how it comes over to me so far.
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Interesting concept Masque. Definitely dark and moody.
Having posted it and therefore looked at it through other peoples eyes, as well as my own I feel it has gone too dark. While I like the basic landscape I think I'm going to have a re-think and abondon this before it just goes totally black with a red balloon floating around and start again but thats often how these things go.
Derek
"Come in out of the dry and wet yourself by this tap". Spike Milligan
http://www.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/mar07/
http://www.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/aug10/
http://www.xaraxone.com/FeaturedArt/dc2/index.htm
Shades of grey... would be much better...
Although the black bear in the coal mine, with a red ballon isn't bad either...
A couple of bleach transparencies and although it loses a bit in the mood department,
at least we can see the good work you did Derek.![]()
ECM Records go for the type of album cover that was dark and mysterious, rather like the avant-garde type of jazz they release.
Tenor Saxophonist Jan Garbarek's covers are particularly good. His album "Dis" is exquisite both visually and musically.
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