Alessandra Perez-Rubio

My camera has been broken for the past few weeks! finally works now though... i know thats no excues for not blogging, but ill make this one extra good. Since spring break i have been looking into more specific forms, versus the abstract ones i have been experimenting with. The form i was inherently drawn to for some reason were chandeliers. I just started taking lots of pictures of chandeliers and then rendering them on plain bristol paper. I experimented with different types of rendering, using tracing paper, layering these images and conecting them to each other. I also chose not to completely render some of the chandelier beads and just outline them. I didnt want to comepletely break from my initial ideas of shapes and pattern Then i decided to have them all compiled on one sheet of paper on a high rez file on photoshop. I took this to the printer next door, and had them print it out on velum, instead of normal paper. I wanted to play around with the idea of how transparencey reveals layers from underneath. I also wanted to experiment with how light showed through this transparency and how it enhanced/detracted from picture plane. When i had the image printed out, i felt that they werent stong enough to exist on their own, which is why i decided to go over the images in a black penn, and further bring out the shading and the outlines. Throughout this process i had been walking around the city and taking pictures of decaying walls and rustation in the buildings. I printed these photos out in black and white on plain paper and gave them all a very subdued watercolor wash, similar to that of my midterm piece. I then applied glue on the front of these images and pasted them on the back of the paper, so it would show through the velum, and then after a few seconds remove it so only a thin and slightly torn up abstracted part of the image of the decayed wall would show through.