As an owner of a Canon EOS 7D DSLR camera I was fascinated when I read about this 45 Gigapixel image. It was produced from 4,250 individual shots taken with a 7D and a total shooting time of approximately 3 hours 30 minutes.
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World's Largest Panoramic Photo is Bigger than 1200 Billboards
As an owner of a Canon EOS 7D DSLR camera I was fascinated when I read about this 45 Gigapixel image. It was produced from 4,250 individual shots taken with a 7D and a total shooting time of approximately 3 hours 30 minutes.
Fine #Art Photography and #Scanning Basics
The copying of artwork has always been an important part of theSTUDIO’s business mix and we have access to a range of high end digital capture devices including Phase One FX scanning back, Digital SLR’s and flat bed scanner. However, we recognise that today many artists have their own digital equipment that is more than capable of producing a high quality visual record of their work, suitable for a portfolio, website and/or gallery and competition submissions.
But owning a good quality camera or scanner does not automatically mean great results. Photographing artwork not only requires experience and knowledge of the photographic process but also skills in post capture digital imaging. That is why theSTUDIO has seen a growing demand for our one to one and group tutorial “Fine Art Photography and Scanning Basics’.
Both informal and fun it is a must for all those who want to get the best from their camera or scanner and be confident in the results. (And by the way, if you don’t have an online portfolio yet, theSTUDIO can guide you from choosing the best value solution to managing your site).
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Get puffing and shooting
I am always searching the web looking for new and exciting #photographic techniques that are pushing the boundaries of the medium. This week I came across the work of #Stoffel De Roover and his amazing “Smoke Art Photography”.
#De Roover says of his work “The smoke can be considered the subject or the medium to create something else. Some focus on its own beauty and pureness, others use it as ‘paint’ to create stunning artwork. I think my work lies somewhere in the middle: For the images in my gallery with the exception of a few, each image has the smoke of just one capture. In some cases duplicated or mirrored”. He continues “Every time I shoot smoke I’m in awe at the shapes and forms I see. No two twirls are the same.”
I urge you to take a look a selection of De Roover’s work at www.lumendipity.com where I am sure you will be inspired to have a go. So here is a clue how to get started - grab your camera, light up a ciggie and get puffing and shooting.
#SAATCHI TAKE NOTE
When I first caught a glimpse of the book cover of "We Were There, Now We’re Here" I immediately thought it was by contemporary British artist #Martin Maloney. Maloney was an exhibitor at the Saatchi Collection on display as Sensation, held at the Royal Academy, London, in 1997. Through his expressionistic style, strong colours, and humorous subject matter, Maloney's "childishly sweet" figure paintings record everyday experiences.
But on picking up the book I was pleasantly surprised to learn that it showcased work created by young artists with #autism and learning disabilities, based in #Oxfordshire in the UK. The artists, whose ages range from 11 to 17, have all been students at the acclaimed Ormerod #SENSS Base, situated at the Marlborough School in #Woodstock.
The project is the brainchild of Anne Louise Avery and Steve Pratley, who together run #Flash of Splendour Arts, a community interest company specialising in pioneering art projects which transform perceptions and give hope to those placed, for whatever reason, on the margins of society.
I urge you (and Charles Saatchi) to support this project by buying a copy of this wonderful book, available from Blackwell's Art Shop, Oxfordshire Museum. andonline at Amazon.
Creative Highlight
The talents of Eurovision 2011 artist Kseniya Simonova.
The 24 year old Ukranian artist and winner of Ukraine's Got Talent 2009 uses a giant light box, dramatic music, imagination and "sand painting" skills to interpret Germany's invasion and occupation of Ukraine during WWII.
Feeling inspired I'm having a go using table salt on the kitchen table whilst listening to ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ by Nirvana.
Jedward or Dead Wood
The highlight of this week has got to be the #Eurovision Song Contest 2011 Final to be screened live on TV this evening. Favourites to win are #X Factor rejects #Jedward - John and Edward Grimes - who will perform a track called Lipstick. Lipstick is everything you'd expect from a Jedward track and more: delightfully naff, with plenty of backing music to cover up the less than perfect vocal talents of the Irish duo. (I have got to confess I like it!!!!)
The duos iconic look was captured by the artist Tom Byrne who said the two boys were easy to paint. The painting was hung in the Apollo Gallery, Dublin, and was bought by the Mayo media mogul and duos manager Louis Walsh for €950.
Prints of the original are available to purchase from the Apollo Gallery website – so why not grab one.
A POSTCARD FROM ORKNEY
I received a postcard on Friday featuring a photograph of The Pier Arts Centre in Orkney.
Apparently, the Centre was established in 1979 to provide a home for an important collection of British fine art donated by the author, peace activist and philanthropist Margaret Gardiner (1904 – 2005). Being an inquisitive type, I immediately Googled the centre to see what was in the collection. I was pleasantly surprised.
Amongst the work is a sculpture by the Russian artist Naum Gabo (1890 – 1977) Linear Construction No. 1, 1942-3. This was Gabo’s first sculpture in which he used string-like nylon filament, made in St Ives, and that was to have a profound effect upon artists such as Barbara Hepworth, Peter Lanyon and John Wells. Originally conceived as a large-scale public sculpture, it is one of seventeen versions that Gabo made over a twenty-year period.
Interestingly, Gabo was also an important influence on London based artist Victoria Rance. Rance was born in Streatley, Berkshire, in 1959. She studied at North Oxfordshire Technical College (1978-79) and in the Department of Fine Art at Newcastle University (1979-83). Like Gabo her work is an exploration of space, but more specifically it is concerned with creating spaces for humans to inhabit, either physically or in the imagination.
Rance’s sculpture to wear series for example, creates a sheltering skin that protects or alters the sense of self in a hostile world. The sculptures have elements of ceremonial architecture and costume, both contemporary and historic. Physically they test the tension between protective constraint and freedom of movement.
Her works evolve slowly, but at this time she says “ that she is returning to ideas pursued as a student”.
Take a peek at this: sculpture and animation: by Victoria Rance
Slices of fragmentary time
During the long process of repairing and reviving I was reminded of a passage from a book I have in my collection “All photographs are momento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to times relentless melt.” (Sontag, S. On Photography, London: Penguin 2002).
It is a passage that also caught the attention of artist and former Banbury Art & Design student Dr Shirley Chubb. Chubb’s work centres on the making of new images and objects in direct response to specific museum collections, creating installations in which she places her own work in dialogue with chosen museum objects.
Chubb’s most recent work One Minute was exhibited at the GOW in Newcastle upon Tyne earlier this year. The work presented sixty portraits extracted from digitally archived photographs of social and familial groups living in southern regional towns during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. The work plays on the curatorial practice of using archival photographs to contextualise examples of material culture within museums. The images and the subjects themselves become the object of consideration. They are the focus of our attention, involving the viewer in an empathetic relationship with the original individuals now reinstated within our own world of experience and awareness. As for the digital interface, this allows miniscule detail to be extracted as, in Sontag’s words, ‘slices’ of fragmentary time.
Chubb gained her PhD at the University of Brighton.
#Degree Shows
Ruskin, Oxford Brookes and Oxford Cherwell Valley College all pride themselves on being influential producers of artistic talent. The breadth, depth and high standard of the work on display is impressive and amongst the hundreds of visitors attracted by the Shows are many professional artists, designers, performers, potential future employers and supporters from the creative industries.
So please go along and support tomorrow’s talent.
#Ruskin Degree Show 2011
Twenty-one finalists at the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art proudly present the Ruskin Degree Show 2011.
The culmination of three years’ study, twenty-one artworks weave through a disused power station in West Oxford, illuminating the site’s extraordinary architecture and collecting the efforts of a year group in a single space. Moulding bold and subtle practices together, the show delivers inspiring insight into some of decisions currently being made by the artists of tomorrow.
Please join us at the Private View for food, drink and merriment on Friday 24th June (6pm-11pm), or on Saturday 25th June or Sunday 26th June (12-6pm).
The Degree Show 2011 website will soon be going live and this will also provide a map and directions to the Old Power Station, Osney.
#Oxford Brookes Degree Show 2011
Fine Art Degree Show 2011
Saturday 14 May 2011 10:00 - Saturday 21 May 2011 20:00
Open to all
Location
Richard Hamilton Building, Headington Campus, Headington Hill site
Associated academic school(s)
School of Arts and Humanities
Details
Come along to the Richard Hamilton Building to view the work of students graduating from one of the country's premier Art Schools.
Open to everyone, the Fine Art Degree Show takes place annually at the Headington Hill campus and is open daily from 10:00 - 20:00. Special exhibition tours will run at 11:00 on Saturday and Sunday and at 18:00 on Wednesday.
#Oxford Cherwell Valley College
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This is a painting!
Believe it or not this is an incredible and stunningly painted image by British artist Sue Rubira.
The portrait is of Rubira’s mother and was intricately painted in the artist’s studio. Rubira says ‘I chose to position her purposefully under a sky light which presented her in the natural, unembellished state most familiar to me.’
Although Rubira paints from life the process starts by taking hundreds of photos - without using flash - to arrange pose and lighting. Using this process she can then prepare the design, set-up and placement on the canvas and the position of the model in relation to natural lighting.
Rubira studied Foundation in Art and Design at Banbury School of Art, Oxfordshire (1976-1977) before going on to study illustration at Bristol and the Royal College of Art. If you would like to see more of her amazing and talented work or indeed an animation of Rubira’s painting process you can do so by visiting: www.suerubira.co.uk.
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