William Oldacre Photography

Tag: book

  • Resin Trouble

    Resin Trouble

    Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, red, pink, green, orange, vibrant, swoops, streaks, drapes, pattern
    Draped Yellow Green Over Pink, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more)

    Been working on the book today – sounds ominous calling it “the book” but there you go. It’s actually a touch more difficult than I thought it would be but mostly the hard part is editing which images to include and then constructing a narrative that makes sense. Feels like I don’t know what I’m doing when it comes to this so I’m completely relying on intuition.

    The design and layout are pretty firmly formed in my mind so now that I have a first cut of the images and narrative I’ve actually slammed it together quickly just so I can get a feel for the flow.

    Also did more research into the resin work and discovered that I’m going to have to use polyester resin instead of epoxy resin. Epoxy resin has a slight yellow colour tint to it that with thicker pours will become too dense. No problem right? Yep – polyester resin produces massive amounts of VOC’s (carcinogenic volatile organic compounds) – cancer causing smells to you and me. Not going to work in my studio or anywhere in this building that’s for sure. This is a serious problem. I currently don’t have the ability to rent a separate space and neither can I create some kind of franken-ventilation setup here in my studio.

    Going to have to contemplate this for a bit and see if I can’t temporarily borrow some space or maybe even do some resin tests outside. Ah well.

    You know what they say about progress – 2 forward 1 back.

  • A Book

    A Book

    Light Signatures series, day, colour photograph, art, abstract, abstract expressionism, creative, city street, urban, downtown, cityscape, speed, blur, movement, motion, blue, orange, vibrant, metallic , pattern
    Deep Blue Refracted Orange, 2013 – Light Signatures :: (click to see more)

    Began working on a book of images today to use as a leave behind when I meet with galleries. But I’m kind of excited by the possibility of offering it as an ebook for free on my site and also as a hardcover for sale. I spent a good amount of time researching and trying to find a print on demand publisher with decent colour and quality – which not surprisingly was harder than expected.

    Next step is complete the design then make some to see how they actually turn out. Difficult to judge the colour quality without a test at least. Now I’m also excited by the idea of making a book to accompany the Light Signatures work … once it’s complete.

    Speaking of which I’ve kind of started experimenting with production of the Light Signatures images. Ordered some clear film, worked out a process for separating the images into visual elements for printing as individual layers and ran a small print test on the film – which looks pretty good. Next step is to start fiddling with the resin and see how well it transfers the ink pigment from the film so I can build up layers of colour.

    Hope it works. Alternative to this organic manual process would be to 3D print it somehow in clear acrylic – if that even exists. Now that would be very cool.