Hiroshi Project - Post 2: Color Schemes

With my color schemes I decided to create swatches for some of the images created by the artists I am using as inspiration for this project. I felt that this would help me better decipher the "themes" more or less of their images.

Dan Mountford Color Schemes:

I noticed in Dan Mountford's work that he tends to use a lot of natural, light skin tones of a sort. This is then paired with a pop of color which I feel adds interest and also helps the pop color stand out beautifully. This is also evident in his prints lacking color where he adds his stamp in the corner of the image.

Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison Color Schemes:

With the ParkeHarrisons' photographs I noticed they use a muted, yet vivid color scheme for most of their images. Usually complimentary colors are evident in their work, as well as almost 'drab' colors creating a lively, but old and used feeling in their images. Their color schemes give me a sense of familiar discomfort, like an abandoned house that should feel haunted, but instead feels loved, missed, and full of stories. 

I used the themes I noticed from both of these artists in order to create a starting point for my own color schemes. While I feel I need to develop a solid foundation for my ideas before I can be set on a color scheme, I do know the mood I would like to portray. I want to combine the neutral pop of Mountford's work with the vivid drab of the ParkeHarrison's work. We will see how successful this is as the project continues to develop.

Here is what I have so far:

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Hiroshi Project - Post 1: Mood Boards

-Update-

I think my ideas are changing, or I guess developing more or less. I am beginning to lean toward the idea of still using photography and double exposures, but finishing it a cut and paste style creating a landscape out of a physical collage of photographs. Hmm, this idea is inspiring me... we shall see!

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Idea 1: Double Exposure - Bodies/Wilderness Landscape

Inspirational Artist: Dan Mountford

Idea 2: Photographs of Bodies Becoming Wilderness Landscape (Preferred Desert)

Inspirational Artists: Robert & Shana ParkeHarrison

For this project I am really leaning toward the idea of double exposure. Creating these mood boards and brainstorming really helped me focus my ideas onto what I would like to do. I find double exposures visually intriguing, technically challenging, and a beautiful way to interpret 'Figure as Landscape' through photography. The actual subject matter is still developing, but I have a few ideas I would like to develop.
Because I really enjoy building scenes, I would like to build different recognizable landscapes or skylines, such as a city, the desert, mountains, a forest, etc. I would like to choose different body parts that I can some how connect to these scenes, maybe more due to visually connections instead of conceptually. I would photograph the scenes as well as the body parts creating double exposures. Depending on the technical difficulties I run into, I may end up creating these double exposures digitally.
This idea needs quite a bit more development, but it is beginning to take form and inspire a creative spark, so now it's time to let it burn...

Here are a couple of examples of my own experimentation of multiple exposure:

Here are some experimental images I created digitally with some of my old photographs:

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