Slacking on my photography project

I had decided to begin 2 photography projects in December and I haven’t quite gotten it started yet. So I am committed to beginning the projects by February 1st.

Tom tom club - genius of love

Waiting for Death - Art

Waiting for Death is an abstract, freeform painting with a striking complementary color scheme. The foreboding title fills the viewer with a sense of dread that is reinforced by the strong contrast of the colors and the cryptic figure that is featured in the painting. This dark, abstract shape seems to be moving slowly across the painting’s surface, slowly encroaching into the orange field that makes up the painting’s background. This impression of slow, steady movement is a representation of human anxiety at the impending reality of death. Each of us is aware of human mortality, and the frightening nature of this knowledge is captured in the figure’s slow progression across the painting.

The color scheme of the painting is also significant, for the figure slowly encroaches into a field of vibrant orange. This orange is a warm color, representing heat and energy – perhaps even life itself. This vibrant, lively color is slowly replaced with the dark shades of the figure. In this way, Waiting for Death shows the slow inevitability of death and its eventual triumph over energy and life.
©1998-2009 Claretta Taylor Webb. All Rights Reserved

Ways of Life - Art

Ways of Life is a monochromatic painting that uses simple shapes to make a profound observation about the nature of life. The shape that is most prominently featured in this piece is the circle. A series of circles overlap in a linear configuration. These circles represent the cyclical nature of life. Life regenerates itself in a circular fashion, and the overlapping circles in this abstract piece reveal the way that life unfolds in time. The circles represent the repetitive cycles of life, while the linear arrangement of the circles represent the continually forward-moving passage of time.
The orange monochromatic color scheme used in this painting also reflects the nature of life. A color associated with warmth, the orange color in this piece reflects the heat and movement of life. This warm shade creates a visual image of heat, a natural characteristic of life. The combination of a well chosen color scheme and an uncomplicated arrangement of simple shapes creates an impression of life’s warmth and natural continuation.

©1998-2009 Claretta Taylor Webb. All Rights Reserved

Family Links - Art

In Family Links, interlocking segments of color represent the intrinsic connections between members of a family. This painting features vibrant colors, including pink, coral, periwinkle, blue, green, gray, brown, orange, and yellow. The many individual and unique shades used in this piece represent the individuality of the family members. Though they are a part of a larger entity, members of a family maintain autonomy and individuality. This wide range of colors represents the diverse types of people that can be found in a single family.
Yet the segments of color have an interlocking appearance. The interlocking shape of these color patches reveals the interconnectivity of the family and its members. Each color block has a unique shape that interlocks perfectly with its neighboring block. The segments are unique complements to each other, and one segment completes another, the edges lining up to make them both whole. Family Links is an intriguing look at family dynamics and the important balance between the individual’s desire to be independent and to be a part of a larger societal group.

©1998-2009 Claretta Taylor Webb. All Rights Reserved

Flash - Art

In Flash, the warmth of yellow is contrasted with the cool, light absorbing qualities of black to produce an intense juxtaposition of a fiery flash of heat with the cool darkness of the surrounding air. This sudden, intense flash of heat and energy could be anything – a spontaneous fire, a flash of lightning, or an electrical spark. Yet the sense of surprise and danger is the same in each of these. This surprising interspersing of heat in the surrounding air is the experience captured in the broad strokes and dense color saturation of this painting.
The mixing of black with yellow reveals the way that the electrical and heat energy of the flash is mixed with the air around it. This produces a sense of immediacy, as though the flash is an instantaneous event. This instantaneous quality is more suggestive of a flash of lightning or an electrical spark, which can disappear just as quickly as it appears. Soon after the flash, the air will be cool again, the black overtaking the yellow, but for the instant captured in Flash, the air is teeming with light and bursting with energy.

©1998-2009 Claretta Taylor Webb. All Rights Reserved

New Gardens - Art

This piece is an abstract still life that gives a common object a closer look. A triangular shape dominates the painting, and it appears almost three-dimensional. The object shown in the painting is the abstracted image of a piece of chocolate pie. The triangular slice of pie is a common object, recognizable to many, yet this painting gives it a closer examination. In fact, the pie is celebrated in the painting, set in a background of vibrant, party-like colors
Depicting common objects in an abstract form forces the painting’s viewer to take a closer look at the objects that make up his or her daily world. For these mundane objects do make up the main substance of our lives, and a closer examination of them can lead to a fuller, more completely realized life. Paintings such as this one help bring the viewer into that close examination.

©1998-2009 Claretta Taylor Webb. All Rights Reserved

Passing - Art

Passing is a colorful piece with almost blurry, impressionistic lines that seem to bleed from one color to the next without any distinct boundaries. Indeed, each color’s force and energy seems to be passing from one patch of color to the next. The textural look of this piece is quite intriguing, given the indistinct lines and patchy coloring. The color is almost transient, as though it is prepared to move from one spot to another at a moment’s notice.
This texture reveals the transient nature of the color, because it appears patchy or rough at certain points, as though the smooth vibrancy of the colors has simply passed away. This fading color gives an impression of life and energy ebbing, receding into nothing. This painting deals with the fleeting nature of life, for it too can pass away without being noticed, such as the color is slowly receding in this painting. Passing is a beautiful, mysterious piece that treats in an indirect way, the fleeting nature of life and the mortal certainty of death

©1998-2009 Claretta Taylor Webb. All Rights Reserved

Stand Still - Art

Stand Still is a painting comprised of a series of thick, green lines across the canvas. The lines are stacked on top of each other and fill the canvas; there is no other image in this painting. The simplicity of this piece belies its important meaning. By choosing green for the thick lines of the painting, the artist has created a specific impression in the mind of the viewer.
Green is a color associated with nature, vegetation, and natural growth. The painting’s title, Stand Still, suggests that the viewer stop for a moment and consider the painting without movement or distraction. Similarly, the painting is urging to viewer to do the same with respect to his or her natural surroundings. Just as the viewer must stop for a moment to consider the painting, so must he or she spend time looking at and contemplating nature. Thereby, the viewer will be regenerated, for green is also a color associated with regeneration and rebirth.

©1998-2009 Claretta Taylor Webb. All Rights Reserved