A photo of Akaroa Harbour distorted using Photoshop’s polar coordinates filter. The original photo is shown below. It’s the same technique I used on Spheres one and two.
Sphere three
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Spheres one and two
I’ve been messing about with the polar coordinates filter in Photoshop and getting some nice results. Some photos definitely work better than others but even the ‘failures’ are interesting. Quite a few people (and I’m one of them) use the filter to create weird little planets but I’m interested in seeing what else I can do with it.
This is the original photo before it was duplicated, flipped horizontally to create a mirror image, resized into a distorted square and transformed into spheres.
My thanks to Leanne Cole for posting a tutorial on the polar coordinates distortion filter.
Pirate Mouse
Do you remember a time before earthquakes?
It’s been two years since the first big earthquake shook Christchurch awake in the middle of the night on September 4th, 2010. Parts of the city are fine (and always have been). Other parts are slowly recovering. Some are still a mess or are now empty — blank canvases waiting for something artistic and wonderful to happen. Or not.
The September earthquake was not the worst (we’ve had a number of more destructive quakes since then) but that’s when it all started. And even though it’s been relatively quiet lately — well, we’ve been here before and we know not to get too comfortable… don’t we?
‘My life is a disaster movie’ (ink on paper) was drawn for a student project about the 2010/2011 earthquakes (previously posted here — about halfway down). The little tornado character represents how confusing and unsettling it is to have the expression ‘solid ground’ removed from your vocabulary.
Various sketchbook entries and illustration ideas for the project.
Water Whirler
This is New Zealand artist Len Lye’s Water Whirler in motion. The kinetic sculpture was built posthumously on its own pier in Wellington, 2006.
Experimental collage
Question: what to do when you want to make something a bit special for an arty friend who has seen practically everything you’ve made over the last three years?
Answer: something else.
The background photo and the toy museum dolls (in the window) were taken in Nelson, December 2011. The vintage circus girl, shell and chrysalis are found images. Acrylic paint, a black copic marker and felt pens (probably also vintage) were used to complete the design.
I wouldn’t mind making a few more like this.
Anna Cull ~ Art & Music 