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whispering trees, by girlgreen

Among my most treasured discoveries on Flickr are the impressionistic, yet electric landscapes of contributor girlgreen. In particular, the gorgeous example above caught my attention by its resemblance to some of the colour effects in the paintings of German romantic Caspar David Friedrich.

Tilt-a-Whirl, by iImagineSo

Clicking the photo will take you to my brand-spankin’-new Flickr account!

“Purple is mad as it can be both warm and cool at the same time.” Treated to such a beautiful presentation, I found Words and Thoughts in RGB an enjoyable refresher on the basics of colour history, science and application. I hope you like it too.

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BRADREID.COM remains in a holding pattern. Following the most costly software expenditure that he has ever made in his entire life, the artist is currently investigating the possibilities offered by 3D computer graphics, of which the above test pattern is in no way representative. (I’m talking about the same technology you see in the movies, folks.)He hopes to have some little thing or other to show for it here very soon.

Please stay tuned.

May 28, 2008: I put quite a lot of time and effort into the CG thing, but truth be told not much came of it. CG is a lot to take on in one’s spare time. Oh well, I don’t have much else to do but brush myself off and try to get on with something else. Too damn bad I spent so much money though.

 
Peter Jackson’s Monkey Business, (c) Brad Reid 2006
Illustration Friday topic: E is for… Entertainer

If you’re like me, then you’ve been ogling the advances in motion picture colour for some years now. Some recent standouts like Yimou Zhang’s House of Flying Daggers and Michael Mann’s Collateral express a joy of colour that makes almost everything else – and certainly almost everything from before 1995 (or around then, I would guess) – seem grey and tired by comparison. I love the colour in these movies. For my liking, their use of colour seems to go beyond mere assistance to the story – their colour seems instead to be part of their whole reason for being.

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One Dozen Flavours, (c) Brad Reid 2005 ^,1,2,3,4,5

Think of this as the shorter, edited version of what was previously posted at this url, the most difficult post for me so far. Despite its apparent simplicity, One Dozen Flavours, presented ‘live’ as a work-in-progress here at bradreid.com, had an arduously prolonged development.

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