More From The National Gallery

In my last post, I wrote about making multiple exposure images at the National Gallery of Art. I wanted to show another that I just finished processing as well, because it has a joyful feel to me. I’m not sure if it’s the colors or shapes, but it was really fun to work on.

© Howard Grill

One thing that I always strive for when doing work like this is to make the final result a unique piece that is different from the original material. In that vein, the following four images are the original exposures from which I made the final image. Each is a very small area of a much larger painting.

© Howard Grill

© Howard Grill

These multiple small portions of a larger piece combine, along with a trip to Photoshop, to form a complete and very different artwork.

As TS Elliot said:

“Immature poets imitate; mature poets steal; bad poets deface what they take, and good poets make it into something better, or at least something different”. 

I try to at least make it different!

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