The creative process continues. My love of maps has led me to create this one (shown below), inspired by The Aesthete (worth reading to understand the beginnings) and further inspired by a photo of a wall in a car park in England (See above).
I didn’t know when I took this photo in the summer that it would become a map. That’s what I love about the creative process.
This one is still not quite finished I don’t think, but i wanted to keep it simple and try only including what was in the poem.
The colours were inspired by the creative practice colours for August and it was created using Acorn software (similar to Photoshop) to enable layering and curving of text.
Last month’s daily prompt number 20 (LINE) started simply: A few drawn lines on paper with my new calligraphy pen.
Those lines found their way under and over two different images. The first pasted into a circle and hung on a local wall. The second, layered over the beach at La Caleta (in Cádiz), both with some added colour from July’s colour as inspiration.
A line is just a line until it finds something to land on.
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El prompt del mes pasado numero 20 (LÍNEA) comenzó de forma sencilla: unas pocas líneas dibujadas en papel con mi nueva pluma caligráfica.
Esas líneas encontraron su camino bajo y sobre dos imágenes diferentes. La primera pegada en un círculo y colgada en una pared local. La segunda, superpuesta sobre la playa de La Caleta (en Cádiz) los dos con algo de color de julio como inspiración.
Una línea es solo una línea hasta que encuentra algo donde posarse.
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A few weeks ago I posted about spending a Sunday afternoon under the great ficus tree near La Caleta beach in Cádiz, watching Anna do bark rubbings on its trunk. You can read that post here.
Since then the image has continued to develop. The structure was already there: the sprawling branches, the scale, but the colour wasn’t right. New layering, new colouring, for me, has brought this image more to life.
Hace unas semanas escribí sobre una tarde de domingo bajo el gran ficus cerca de la playa de La Caleta en Cádiz, observando a Anna hacer frotados de corteza en su tronco. Puedes leer ese post aquí.
Desde entonces la imagen ha seguido evolucionando. La estructura ya estaba: las ramas extendidas, la escala — pero el color no era el adecuado. Nueva superposición, nueva coloración han dado más vida a esta imagen, al menos para mí.
Two of this month’s daily prompts: 17, MATERIAL WORLD (as a pattern), and 20, LINE, found their way into the same artwork this last week.
The image of the sea was taken here at the coast, then combined with a pattern from the interior of our car. Layered together, the crinkled, patterned surface of the plastic became the texture of the water. Both beautiful and toxic at the same time.
The resulting image I have named: The standard (automotive-grade) plastic sea.
This work is a demonstration of how you never quite know where creativity will appear. Work through the prompts and inspiration finds you.
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As the heat builds and summer arrives, it felt like the right moment to re-share two older pieces from the COAST of LIGHT collection, Zahara de los Atunes, down the coast from Cádiz.
Zahara is a small fishing village known for its long, wild beach and its history of tuna fishing using the ancient almadraba technique, still practised along this stretch of coast today. It’s one of mine and Anna’s favourite places in the province, and Anna’s favourite place for a swim over the years. The water is just different there.
The first artwork looks out to sea: the sand, the ripples, and the colours of the sky blended together. The second looks back from the beach towards the village, in the same style. Both images created by simply layering photos, the natural colour and light of Zahara doing the rest.
Different views of the same place, capturing the simple beauty of Zahara.
Both available now in the shop, in sizes to suit any wall. https://coastoflight.etsy.com ___ A medida que el calor aprieta y llega el verano, me pareció el momento adecuado para volver a compartir dos piezas de la colección COAST of LIGHT, Zahara de los Atunes, costa abajo desde Cádiz.
Zahara es un pequeño pueblo pesquero conocido por su playa larga y salvaje, y por su historia de pesca de atún mediante la antigua técnica de la almadraba, todavía practicada en este tramo de costa. Es uno de los lugares favoritos de Anna y mío en la provincia, y el lugar preferido de Anna para bañarse a lo largo de los años. El agua allí es simplemente diferente.
La primera obra mira hacia el mar: la arena, las ondas de la marea, y los colores del cielo fundidos entre sí. La segunda mira hacia atrás desde la playa hacia el pueblo, en el mismo estilo. Ambas imágenes creadas simplemente superponiendo fotografías, dejando que el color y la luz natural de Zahara hagan el resto.
Distintas vistas del mismo lugar, capturando la sencilla belleza de Zahara.
