Abstract Oil and Water Photographs

These abstract photographs were made with the help of oil and water. The bubbles are vegetable oil floating on water, in a glass dish. The dish is lit from underneath, with ink floating in and sunk at the bottom of the water. I experimented for awhile getting the lighting and colors right, then took a bunch of photos so I could pick out my favorite ones. This experiment was successful, and I will be doing this again soon.

Glass Face Photographs

Every year I attend this huge summer art show at a local college, where there is an artist who makes these beautiful glass faces by melting down old bottles. The one iridescent mask style face that I bought cracked, but I thought it was still interesting to look at. These pictures are all using the two different glass faces, the one is the blue face on top of my abstract painting. The rest are the light blue, iridescent mask on top of the blue face, with the crack just giving you a glimpse of the face underneath. For this image, I photographed the faces using several different special effect settings on my camera. I think I like the painting setting the best, which seems to give an ethereal-like glow to the photograph.