Monday, May 28, 2012
Trying out sculpture
As an extension of my exploration of space with the shadow paintings, I tried translating my designs in three dimensions. This is made of metal wire, aluminum foil, paper mache, and acrylic paint. It's around 5 ft tall.
Shadow Paintings
Hi there! These paintings are both on polyester film. The first one is using gloss medium, and the second is using pastel pencils. Both are 72" x 40". I really enjoyed making them. I particularly enjoyed entertaining the idea of metaphysics of presence. This has to do with the hierarchy between presence and absence. I wanted to create paintings in which presence and absence are equally important. I have decided not to title them.
Thursday, April 26, 2012
ATELO: A solo show by Xavier Robles de Medina
Monday, April 16, 2012
Far From Home
Come see my drawing at "Far From Home" exhibition at La Galerie Bleue, Montgomery Hall, SCAD, Savannah, GA. Reception and award ceremony 6-7:30 p.m., April 20. Exhibition hours: 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m Monday - Friday
Tuesday, April 10, 2012
How to make an animated GIF and upload it to Tumblr
Click through to see the gif!
This is a still from my film "Burning & Drowning". I have been trying to make gifs for the longest time and haven't entirely figured it out, but here's a few tips that helped me at least upload a low-res gif to tumblr. If you're using an excerpt from a film, export a 4 second .mov file of the part you want. Then in Photoshop --> file - open - file.mov
In the top bar, go to window - animation. You should get a timeline that plays your .mov file. You can then edit your excerpt further in photoshop, when your happy with it, go to file - save for web and devices. Before saving make sure the setting at the top is on GIF. Also make sure the "Looping Option" at the bottom is on "Forever". For uploading it to Tumblr, it has to be less than 500 Kb, and 500 px. Hope it works, if you have any advice for better ways to do it, please let me know!
Xavier
Thursday, April 5, 2012
Subscribe to:
Posts (Atom)