Cyclists Abstract

by Carol Leigh

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Cyclists Abstract

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Carol Leigh

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Photograph - Photography - Photomontage

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Okay, this is a strange one. I was looking at a photograph I took from a hotel room in Portland, Oregon. The photo was an overhead shot of two cyclists preparing to enter a crosswalk in the street down below. At the top of the frame was a green patch of grass. At the bottom of the frame was more street. I was staring at my photograph and visually breaking it down into its various compositional "blocks."

Hmmmm . . . Could I create a photomontage that's composed sort of the same way? So I used photographs of an old oil painting (for the canvas texture), vintage Japanese books, hand-stained paper (stained with coffee and tea), a hand-painted piece of paper (the blue and black bits of the "sidewalk"), and a couple of circles I'd cut out of manila paper.

Would you like to see the photograph I used as inspiration for this composition? It's on my blog at http://carolleigh.blogspot.com/2015/05/cyclists-in-spring.html but I do not think I can make that link a live one here at Fine Art America.

Anyway, that's how this piece came to be. All because I was looking down at the street from my hotel room window.

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May 5th, 2015

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