Something about her -

"Driven To Abstraction"
digital collage by Mick Mather

It's always a blast to work on something ordinary, an unremarkable, candid snapshot for instance. You know the sort, taken at a dinner, an office party or some function that only merits a casual documentation. Even the most boring of these contains something, or someone, with a sparkle and shine worth elevating, like the subject in tonight's post, obviously. After running this one through the usual array of super secret filters, as well as some of the new ones, an abstract quality began to assert itself. So, a bit of minimalism wrestling its way out of an almost ambient color field toward the realism of the figure. Do pardon the professorial hoo-haw explanation that translates, in my own mind, to: I like her smile!

NEW from The Making Faces Series -

"A Glowing Smile"
digital collage by Mick Mather

Not much to say this evening except for the fact that a flurry of creativity this week has resulted in four more images in this series. Once again, as a reminder, these are hastily thrown together with short shrift given to clean edges or blocking out unwanted background. Usually, 3 or 4 faces are assembled and layered before the final work of manipulation in the array of super secret filters begins. Anyway, I need something mindless to entertain me this evening...rot, wot? TV? Did I hear yer say, TV? Sounds about right...I'm in!