[Ng Mui]

There's a "new media" scholarship at my school, and I was thinking of doing this to be spiffy and all that. Do you think this is good application material? What should I do?

Anyway, with the shitty weather and all, I peeled the ice off of a leaf and took a picture as a reference. I don't think my picture makes the leaf look transparent enough. I'll post more when I the shadows in place. Thanks.

[marc_taro]

nothing wrong with this start..I imagine it would be worth going in with some smaller brushes to get some of the tiny cracks and bubbles ...but you know - as far as a 'new media' scholarship - I think they would be impressed to see more of an exploration of media, rather than a replication of traditional skills done on the computer - I would try some Wharhol inspired grid paintings, taking this leaf painting, your original photo, and then trying a whole pile of different filters and techniques for interpreting the same image. I believe you'll impress them more with a lot of experimentation, than with one perfect image. (That's been my experience with art classes)...

-mth

[Ng Mui]

Thanks for the tip.

I thought about it for a while -- you're right. I was going for a realistic-but-obviously-computer-made look, but it's a pretty boring composision. I think I'm going to make a sort of 'timeline' of the progress of the picture. Real sloppy stages, different sizes, sort of a collage. Call it Evolution of a frozen Leaf.

[marc_taro]

lol, sounds way more like a schollarship application!