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These cows
were observed in a pasture in Lacock, England near the former home
and studio of Henry Fox Talbot, where he took his first photograph
- where the art of photography was born. The artist saw them through
a window in Talbot's home, climbed a fence to get closer, and photographed
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are about compositing images that inspire collaged portraits about
cows in a landscape. The goal was to work with a single image of a
cow and in some way change the cow enough so that it was somewhat
unreal or surreal.
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Many of the
techniques used to create these images are directly related to the
artist's work at Industrial Light & Magic, where she is a 2D painter
and rotoscope artist. The techniques include: making articulate mattes,
various types of masks, extractions, cleanplates, marks that assimilate
marks on canvas, and ways to blend colors and edges similar to painting
in oils or drawing with pastels. It is this "marriage" of
technique and process that makes these digital cow paintings unique. |
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