PP&M: Blog entry 15
Today I brought all of my experimentations with the water colours from the past few days into uni to begin playing with the results on the computer. In these experiments, I used the textures I created the other day (see Blog entry 12) I scanned them in, and then started layering them onto my pages of text, altering the opacity and also cutting out shapes. I was wanting to incorporate the watercolours into my initial idea of wanting to obscure the text of the story.
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| Experimentation with watercolour and text in Photoshop |
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| Experimentation with watercolour and text in Photoshop |
Whilst creating the textures, I was contemplating what colours to use. For me, the story conjures up images of old fashioned dark, dank place. with lots of dark wood, and green and red fabrics, dark plain clothes. So far, i have not been able to create any really dark deep colours (I need to work on this more) however the patterns and marks made by the watercolours is similar in places to the marbled pages in some old books.
For now though, I just decided to stick with red, as the text talks of a Crimson hexagon;
"They were urged on by the delirium of trying to reach the books in the Crimson hexagon: books whose format is smaller than usual, all-powerful, illustrated and magical."
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| Experimentation with watercolour and text in Photoshop |
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| Experimentation with watercolour and text in Photoshop |
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| Experimentation with watercolour and text in Photoshop |
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| Experimentation with watercolour and text in Photoshop |
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| Experimentation with watercolour and text in Photoshop |
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| Experimentation with watercolour and text in Photoshop |
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| Experimentation with watercolour and text in Photoshop |
Borges, JorQe Luis. "The Library of Babel." Coltected Fictions.
Trans. Andrew Hurley. NewYork: Penguin, 1998.
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