Office Art (John Cox Art)

Office Art

A little experiment. I took a small pastel landscape (11" x 6") I found in my sketchbook and photoshopped into a benign office setting. Once the scale is expanded to fit on the wall, the "small" piece has a depth and weight to it that surprised me.

I think taking some of my smaller pieces and blowing them up ten times (or so) might be a fun way to develop a new body of work.

Posted on December 17, 2008 8:57 PM | Permalink

Comments (6)

GarandFan:

That's neat!

Posted by GarandFan | December 17, 2008 11:20 PM

Posted on December 17, 2008 23:20

Terwiliger:

I get the feeling that--at the larger scale--your romantic style takes on somewhat of an impressionist vibe.

Would you call that "fusion by diffusion"?

Posted by Terwiliger | December 18, 2008 1:08 AM

Posted on December 18, 2008 01:08

john Cox:

HEY T

If you mean "impressionistic" in the sense that that the surface quality seems to separate and enhances a sense of light....yes that happens in the scaling process and I find it interesting.

"Fusion by diffusion"...clever.

Posted by john Cox | December 18, 2008 9:06 AM

Posted on December 18, 2008 09:06

Doc Al:

Even though the work has been blown-up, I'm still having trouble finding the hidden woman's face.

Posted by Doc Al | December 18, 2008 11:29 AM

Posted on December 18, 2008 11:29

Chap:

Coop has done things like that in changing format. It's worked well for him, which is interesting because smaller things were his gig for a long time. Maybe the thing to do is to try some big formats and see how they go, eh?

Posted by Chap | December 18, 2008 1:38 PM

Posted on December 18, 2008 13:38

Terwiliger:

That's what I meant. Brush strokes that were very refined & deliberate at the smaller scale seem to "open up" at the larger scale.

A change in perspective can be a wonderful thing.

Posted by Terwiliger | December 19, 2008 11:55 PM

Posted on December 19, 2008 23:55

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