First of all, thanks for the postcard. Great to hear from you.
Although I wouldn't accuse your object as being rendered entirely in a negative light, the darkness and a lack of lighting feels ominous, and therefore MORE negative than positive. You have portrayed your object so abstractly that I almost forgot the object you had chosen. At first I thought it was a lamp on its side with a glass shade. (this isn't bad but I'm curious as to why?) Was it because this is an object seldom-used in the kitchen, and in a sense... left in the dark? (Maybe that was too cheesy).
I am a bit thrown off by the object's placement in regards to the frame of the postcard. It feels like it is floating in this dark abyss without any sort of grounding. This also makes it difficult to interpret because I lose the sense of scale I would normally get from seeing the object in context of its environment. All i'm saying is, if you're going to abstract your object and make me work to figure out what it is... there should be a reason.
I am assuming these are not the true colors of your pastry blender. I do remember the handle being red but why the decision to make the blades/cutter thingies blue? Again this is another aesthetic decision that makes interpretation and recognition all the more difficult. Although I find your photographic treatment attractive I also recognize that because your object is so simple you can get away with abstracting it. However, it begins to reach a point where I am unable to identify it as a pastry blender.
A simple solution could be to add more lighting. You can keep your lighting dramatic but increase it so that I can tell that these are actually blades, and that these blades connect from one end of the handle to the other.
Due to the photographic nature of your postcard, your rendering utilizes a representational form of transmission.
Too chessy NOOOOOO!! I thought of it as an object that is seldom use that is along, no one knows what to do with or what it is used for. The position of the object is centered to hint at or give, more chessiness, or make it feel like it's the center of attention(tease), that is also the reason why the space around it is invisible. I wanted to make this object feel as if it was not important and tease it by letting a little light in to reveal itself.
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Dear Quince,
First of all, thanks for the postcard. Great to hear from you.
Although I wouldn't accuse your object as being rendered entirely in a negative light, the darkness and a lack of lighting feels ominous, and therefore MORE negative than positive. You have portrayed your object so abstractly that I almost forgot the object you had chosen. At first I thought it was a lamp on its side with a glass shade. (this isn't bad but I'm curious as to why?) Was it because this is an object seldom-used in the kitchen, and in a sense... left in the dark? (Maybe that was too cheesy).
I am a bit thrown off by the object's placement in regards to the frame of the postcard. It feels like it is floating in this dark abyss without any sort of grounding. This also makes it difficult to interpret because I lose the sense of scale I would normally get from seeing the object in context of its environment. All i'm saying is, if you're going to abstract your object and make me work to figure out what it is... there should be a reason.
I am assuming these are not the true colors of your pastry blender. I do remember the handle being red but why the decision to make the blades/cutter thingies blue? Again this is another aesthetic decision that makes interpretation and recognition all the more difficult. Although I find your photographic treatment attractive I also recognize that because your object is so simple you can get away with abstracting it. However, it begins to reach a point where I am unable to identify it as a pastry blender.
A simple solution could be to add more lighting. You can keep your lighting dramatic but increase it so that I can tell that these are actually blades, and that these blades connect from one end of the handle to the other.
Due to the photographic nature of your postcard, your rendering utilizes a representational form of transmission.
Too chessy NOOOOOO!!
I thought of it as an object that is seldom use that is along, no one knows what to do with or what it is used for. The position of the object is centered to hint at or give, more chessiness, or make it feel like it's the center of attention(tease), that is also the reason why the space around it is invisible. I wanted to make this object feel as if it was not important and tease it by letting a little light in to reveal itself.
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