For this, I have had to wait for the technology to print designs on fabric. But my earlier passion was to make garments and personal adornments. Yes, I can and do print on paper and aluminum substrates that can be used to dress up walls. LoveWins Animation from Karen Hochman Brown on Vimeo.Īnd in the digital realm, there is no actual product. I did have a small stint at making playful fabric hats (Bell Hats Over The Pacific) and other children’s dress-up items, but I moved on to working completely on my computer. I painted and crochet and embroidered and set bezels and on and on and on. While reviewing an old diary, I see that at one point, I had wanted to be a world famous fashion designer. As a child, I sold watercolor greeting cards and beaded jewelry in my father’s place of business. Categories Animation, Creating Artwork, Inspiration, Kaleidoscope Art, Psychedelic Art, Uncategorized Tags Argentina, art process, artist, blue, celebrate, chanukah, christmas, colorful, creative, december, digital art, Digital Arts: California, frozen, glacier, holidays, ice, inspiration, kaleidoscope, kaleidoscopic, Karen Hochman Brown, mandala, meditation, Patagonia, perito moreno glacier, photography, psychedelic, sacred geometry, snow, snowflake, symmetry, water, winter Leave a comment But in the end, it was beautiful it was dramatic it was done. I printed out drafts at an alarming rate. The animation shows “only” 14 of the 31 versions I recorded.
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I believe that creating “Perito Moreno Glacier” took more time than any other work of mine. And so I fiddle with many different iterations in search of the point when the piece is done. The form of giant ice structures and watery blues seem unfamiliar, and monochromatic is problematic. My work has been mainly of organic material. As I began to work on the piece, I was continually stymied. I knew I must take many pictures of the amazing blues and patterns to use in a kaleidoscope. The jagged structure of the glacier surface is startling in its severity. And you walk down a metal path that keeps the hoards from trampling the earth and still get up close to the face.īits and pieces from the artwork. Your base of operations is a vast tourist center/cafeteria atop an overlook to the giant glacier. At Perito Moreno, that means a multi-storied catwalk that comes very close to the face of the glacier. No jeeps or helicopters, we do the pedestrian version of the tour.
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My husband and I take the standard package deal for most of our travels. The Perito Moreno Glacier in southern Patagonia was one of the highlights of our trip to Argentina. Perito Moreno Glacier_animation from Karen Hochman Brown on Vimeo. The animation I am presenting here goes through many stages in the creation of “Perito Moreno Glacier,” searching for that moment when it is done. I also have the ability to save stages of a piece.
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Working on the computer, I have the luxury (or is it a curse?) of being able to endlessly edit. When is a piece done? It is easy to overwork in the quest for that moment when the artwork is finished. Today I am sharing a different aspect of the creative process. Over the past several months, I have been sharing animations of my work that take you through the process of constructing a piece as I build it up layer by layer.