Experimenting with Texture

Doing the textural thing seems to be a habit in my work.   Everything is growing texture.  My focus is to build layers and look for ways to build textures that are similar to forest environments.  There is a feeling and an experience built on texture that is alluding me.  In these pics you will see compositions built with digital images printed on alternative surfaces.  

Layers of Texture

This digital textural piece was built with layers in Photoshop CS5. The way this piece was created is part of the "Digital Collage Workshop", that will be posted for members later this month. For a sneak peak, I have included the layers that are blended in this piece.
















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Real Texture to Digital Texture

Using a piece from a textural page in a journal, I separated the picture of the page element into 3 layers in Photohshop CS5, textured the layers with some of my patterns, then combined the layers for the final images.

Paper as a Textural Base

Trying this to see if I can figure out how to blog from my iPad:) not sure about the image size in the post, but here goes.

This weeks texture comes from a piece of handmade paper. This paper was printed for a journal. The image was combined with blending modes from 2 images. The first image the paper and the other image a detail of a page in Book of Forests 2.


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Location:Phoenix Airport

Digital Elements in Textures

Using dyed burlap, beads, copper mesh, copper wire, brass wire, digital prints on canvas, lutradur and organdy creates the textures is this page from one of my art books.

Building Textures with Beverage Cans

These textures come for a couple of sections of a box that is constructed from digitally printed beverage cans, felted balls, waxed linen thread and beads.  The sections have been digitally manipulated to combine the 2 sections.

                                         This pattern is from a section of the embellished can.

Digital and FIber in a Textural Surface

Using an alcohol transfer on watercolor paper as a base,  this textural surface was created by layering 4 other elements.  A piece of dyed burlap,  rolled and wrapped with crochet became the second addition.  The crochet piece grew to cover the surface and when finished, pieces of hemp were randomly tied to the crochet with pieces of digitally printed tyvek made the final part of the textured surface.

Altered Papers

Dying paper, digital printing and embellishing brings us to this weeks textures.  The materials in these surfaces contain digital prints on dyed paper, tissue paper, vellum and lace papers.  Once other papers,  fabric and burlap were dyed, painted, printed and torn, they were stacked 4 or 5 together and assembled with embroidery thread, beads, gel medium and wire.  

Detail

Digital Print on Lutradur

This detail of Mariposa Grove 3 shows a digital print on melted lutradur.  This print has been stacked in several layers on a crocheted hemp base.  The lutradur is sewn in place with french knots and beading.

Net Overlay Texture

Building a textural surface in layers is one of my favorite ways to create.  This image is digitally printed on lutradur that has been heat distressed slightly.  The heat changes the edges and puckers the surface. On the top, a piece of polyester netting has also been heat distressed and beads and crochet with various threads and thin yarns are added to the netting.  The surfaces are connected with metalic thread.

Net surface.