Merged Images and Some Paintings: 6

A while back I had an idea (don’t know from where) to choose a couple of photos at random and see if I could combine them into an image. I have been doing these paintings in a large sketchbook (mixed media paper) – it’s 18″ x 24″.

Here is the next one. These are the photos I used – me, walking in the surf in NJ; chairs at the Delaware Art Museum; and a view of an art exhibit at the Allentown Art Museum.

Here is the painting. It is called Chairs and Paintings and Walk on the Beach. June 2021.

14 thoughts on “Merged Images and Some Paintings: 6”

    1. Claudia McGill Post author

      Thank you. It’s fun. A couple or maybe 3 photos at random and trying to make sense out of them, it’s creating an abstract painting in a way, things don’t have to make sense. I am enjoying these.

    1. Claudia McGill Post author

      Thank you. It’s fun to do these. You never know where they will go. And I can pick out the parts I lke best in each photo and work with them, and throw out the rest or recombine things.

  3. Laura (PA Pict)

    I know things don’t have to make sense in these merged paintings but you know my brain likes to construct narratives. The way I interpret this painting, the figure has been at the exhibition as a passive observer (the chairs) and then becomes more engaged in the exhibits (the gallery), and then they become so absorbed in what they are viewing that they are transported to the beach depicted in one of the seascapes (the beach goer figure).

    1. Claudia McGill Post author

      I love this scenario you have come up with. And it is so perfect for how I see the gallery experience. You can go along kind of drifting past the offerings until something catches you, and then…at least for me, I really find myself taken into the world of the painting or object. It does not happen often but it’s not rare, either. I wonder if in some way I was thinking of this when making this image, and you also saw it? Well, I can’t say and we’ll never know, but I love your interpretations always and this one is wonderful.

    1. Claudia McGill Post author

      Thank you. Sometime I would like to draw a few photos of myself at the beach, I have them from several places (if it is not too egoistical, but anyway). Being at the ocean is always a happy time for me.

        1. Claudia McGill Post author

          I did some blind contour sketches of a different photo that I think I have scheduled for posting, mostly because they are so odd looking (my husband snapped the photo before I was ready). We will see what you think then!

    1. Claudia McGill Post author

      Thank you. I like doing these smei-surreal revisions of my life and I think the process of coming up with the images is sort of a mental cleaning session, I feel somehow that I have solved some problem after doing these (what the problem was I don’t know and never do). Plus it’s great to experiement with things not having to be “real”.

    1. Claudia McGill Post author

      Thank you. There is always a challenge to figure out how to put these things together from often unpromising photos. I like how this one came out.

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