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.
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!