More Research in color, mood and form

So much Research!

...Just the beginning, as one good image always leads to several more- and some images, even if they are good, are just not quite right. So refining the idea through images is a extensive project. but one of the best parts of the creative process!

tower of inspiration

Helen Frankenthaler

 This amazing artist, Helen Frankenthaler, is someone i stumbled across in a magnum photo archive of the art scene of the 1950s and 1960s. Amazing images, including one of her in her studio looking down over a huge piece that lay on the floor- trying to get a little perspective, it seems. Wish we could do the same with our lives. Climb up on a ladder and say 'hey, maybe i should extend the yellow to just about there...'

For more follow the link to this great blog post with an extensive collection of her work and living/work spaces

Old Research

I was recently going through some old research files. Every once in a while a folder goes unorganized for quite a while. As in these cases, I don't really remember any more where I got the images or what I was looking for when I found them. Here are some that I held on to because I find they still have some kind of relevance...

Robert Frank

Woman dressed as angel, circa 1918 via corbis

Edward Curtis

The Angel of Mons Valse Score Cover by Paul Paree, 1914

Golden Eagle Wing by Niall Benvie circa 1990

From Numéro 82 by Camilla Akrans

 

an editorial page that I got from the much missed website (HFGL)

Pati Smith by Lynn Goldsmith 1977 via corbis

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