The Dissertation is complete but will be edited to include the Second Life material.

The presentation is completed in PowerPoint which is too big to upload here. Conversion to mp4 was the next best option making it available via YouTube. A powerpoint allows the viewer to go at their own speed and to interact directly with the slides. The video has to be stopped if the viewer needs a longer look at something, and it automatically starts any embedded media.

Discussion re using Artivive in a virtual world

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Body of work – continuation.

Continuing the landscape theme but moving into seascapes unless I find I really can’t engage with it, this is the first of the first.

Dilute arcylics on a white acrylic primer. The A1 card has other material on the reverse, some of which may be responsible for the variable pigment retention on the surface. Or it could simply have been absorbed. Either way, it’s one of those results that shapes what comes next. From my own photograph, this is a sky, sea, beach image in layers decreasing in width. This is not so in the photo which has the horizon nearer the centre but I’ve become fond of the ‘big sky’ picture so – artistic licence.

8th June.

June 9th.

So now I’ve arrived at a point where the sky is solid with light leaks, the clouds also have substance but need their weight reinstating, and the foreground, with the help of a fan brush, has whispy foliage which anchors the rest. I’ve applied a number of layers of dilute colour onto the sea’s surface to hint at light, waves, and also large marine creatures, spraying with water to facilitate the scrubbing-off process, and I think that’s about right now.

Clouds under-coated, over-coated, scrubbed, and frilled with white. A little nuance to the white areas required now. Cloud top left has it, I think.

What if … Acrylics and gloss varnish on A1 cartridge.

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