Cheryl Richards: Day Into Night

Would it not be wonderful if we could control the weather? Or the passage of time? In reality we know that's not possible. But in the world of art we can create whatever reality we want.

For this alteration I used a method in Andy Anderson's Adobe Photoshop 7 Creative Workshop, Chapter 5 - Changing Environments, to change the beautiful sunlit grove into a moonlit forest.

I know. We're way beyond Photoshop 7, but some of Anderson's methods can still apply as you can see here.

Guideposts:

passionate - adj. 1. having or showing strong feelings; capable of or susceptible to passion 2. resulting from, expressing, or tending to arouse strong feeling; ardent; intense; impassioned

perceptual abstraction - n. a broad term referring to a reaction against several types of abstract art originating in the 1950s such as hard-edge painting, minimal art and op-art indicating a change from expressive and painterly qualities to an emphasis on clarity and precision based on objective perception. i.e. M. C. Escher

photography - n. the art or process of producing images of objects upon a photosensitive surface by the chemical action of light or other radiant energy

play - v. 1. To amuse oneself 2. To participate in 3. To act frivolously or idle 4. To perform 5. To cause to emit sounds 6. To move lightly, rapidly, or sporadically 7. To make a pretense of being

promote - v. 1. to raise or move (a person) forward to a higher or better position 2. to further the growth or establishment of (something)

prose - n. the ordinary form of written or spoken language without rhyme or meter

Day Into Night

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