I was just reading a post over at the The Frog Queen’s Blog and it made me think about something. Photographing during studio sessions.
When I am making an art piece I take a lot of pictures. Probably in a given 3-4 hour sculpting session I take about 20 or so pictures. This affords me a couple of things:
- I am constantly growing as a artist/designer and my fabrication methods change (and hopefully improve) over time. I don’t always remember how I made a given armature for a particular piece. Having pictures of the process allows me to go back and see how I made the armature for the piece in question.
- I paint in many layers of paint, a lot of times I will miss something like a small area on a tooth for example, it will be stark white. By taking pictures from many angles the camera will pick it up. After painting for the evening I go upstairs and look at my pictures and I will see things that my eye missed.
- Having pictures of your artistic chronology is very interesting you can track how your style and influences have changed over the years.
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agreed! Extremely important to the process. It is amazing the things that you can see in a photo that you don't see with the piece directly in front of you.
Thanks for the mention. I could not agree more. Taking phots during your process gives value insight during the prop making procoess and for future props.
Cheers!
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