Glitchy Trees
Trees! Trees! Teresa Green! Or not as the case may be, sorry Tess. The above was something of a detour from my standard pixel practice; I tried to go wild with nature by creating a spooky tree with blocks of pixels, which I’d previously put together using a selection of shades. It seemed like a clever idea at the time. As you can see, it didn’t go that well, so that was something of a “one and done” exercise.
I started thinking back to old tree pieces I’d done and furthermore to artists who’d made interesting interpretations of them. Of course I found my way back to Piet Mondrian, my old GCSE Art bae. Always a joy. I went a step further with the reduction, however, sticking to my favoured black-and-white style to begin with.
These were such fun, actually, and I like them all the more for their imperfections. I did attempt some later on using sharp lines, but they didn’t appeal nearly so much.
Branching back to my glitch stuff a couple of months back, I felt it was now time for Photoshop to take over. I drew a very rough impression of some leaves over the grid, and then pixellated it, resulting in a glitchy mess. Cue play, and we ended up with these intreeguing puppies:
And then I recoloured one to reflect autumn. Tis the season, after all, close bosom-friend of the maturing sun.
The main take-aways from this post are: wasn’t Mondrian a legend, and; isn’t Photoshop also a legend? These are also uber-abstract for Mr. Literal over here, too, so I’m taking this as a victree one way or another.
You know I love grids. Wonderful! (K)
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Indeed, thanks Kerfe! It was great to get back to them. Remarkable how satisfying they can be.
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The first of the black and white ones reminded me of Tron.
TRee/TRon – whatever the interpretation I’m glad you didn’t leaf it alone and branched out with the latter designs.
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There might be something in a Tree/Tron crossover, actually – I’ll keep a mental note of that, cheers Steve! And treemendous thanks for replying on my mental level 💚
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