There was a time when I was fairly aversed to Warholian-style pop art. I used to believe that a photograph shouldn’t be tampered with, but what did I know? I was just caught up in the throes of social convention much like everyone else, it’s what I grew up with, despite my dislike of […]Read Post ›
What looks great on a big screen doesn’t necessarily translate so well to the tiny screens that we have become accustomed to in the ever evolving, technology dependent procession of our daily lives. My concern is that this increasing dependency on handheld devices will indefatigably change the nature of art completely. Photography in particular […]Read Post ›
Today’s project has been to transform another of my many Venice shots into a work of painterly art. I settled on an image from my archives taken on my second trip to Venice back in August 2013. It is a shot of a window display of one of the umpteen mask shops in between St. […]Read Post ›
There is something of the opulence of the Victorian/Art Nouveau era that I like about this particular version of my shot of King George V. The flaming oranges are reminiscent of the works of Pre-Raphaelite painters Sir Lawrence Alma Tadema, Frederick Lord Leighton, and Edward Burn Jones. King George V would have been a late contemporary, […]Read Post ›
This week’s photo challenge is really beginning to bug me. Not least because the rule wasn’t really explained correctly in the challenge post. The way that the Rule of Thirds has been explained as an artistic principle, traditionally, is that one has to imagine a grid of nine squares dividing an image, with each line […]Read Post ›
There isn’t a moment at which I don’t consider photography art. Within that very broad remit, anything goes as far as I’m concerned. Last Saturday, which happened to be Valentine’s Day, I took myself off to London to watch a West End show I’d been coveting since last November. I’d decided that as it was […]Read Post ›
Put simply, without light we would see nothing, as obvious as that may sound. However, we judge physical beauty by the way in which light waves refracts from surfaces to be interpreted by our eyes according to our subjective views. Light is one way in which life is made beautiful, and full of hope, photography […]Read Post ›
BESS' ART JOURNAL: Through the eyes of an artist 