Sunday, 20 January 2019

Photoshop rhythm paintings

Adding colour through photoshop

I do like this and value colour in application of these paintings. I am not sure that digital colour is the right way to add colour though. 
I think it detracts from the expressive line quality and takes something created analogue and in the moment and turns it into a processed, edited image. They are manipulated afterwards when not in the musical bubble.


The Doors - Break on through
I think this edit is quite successful. I think that this deep blue is the right colour for the doors music. I like the invert as well, I think it captures the reflective spatial nature of their music.

Fanny - You're the one
I think the purple is right for this band, it is warm, powerful and funky. I think that here maybe the colour is too bright and it is quite distracting from the marks.

Hot Wax - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
I like the garish bright colours, I think they are reflective of the music. The clashing contrast between the green and orange is quite psychedelic

Hot Wax - King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard
I like green being the darker colour. I think the orange background reflects the atmosphere and energy of the music but the dark green visualises the heavy, repetitive driving rhythms.

Elastica - 2:1
I like the deep maroon as the background, I think it is the right colour to portray the essence of their music. I also like how some of the lines are silver and almost metallic and I think this reflects the guitar sounds. However I think it is too busy and the lines look better solid

Elastica - All Nighter
I think this image looks very punk but not reflective of Elastica necessarily. The solid red takes away the textures and line quality of the expressions, it looks messy.

Elastica - All Nighter
I like this. I think it has a nice balance of solid background, grey textures but clarity of depths. However I think this would look better flatter, maybe less digital and bright.

Green River - This Town
I like that this is very cold. It makes the lines seem harsher. I think the whiteness of some of the lines aren't very representative. It is very much thick and heavy music so grainy light marks aren't appropriate.

Unwind - Green River
I think this image is just too dark. You can't see clearly enough what is going on.

Jefferson Airplane - White Rabbit
This is an interesting image. It portrays the lights (the emptinesses and space) and darks (development and melodies) of the song. There is a lot going on in this image though.


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