Cajsa's SL Flickr Pic: Duna Grant's Glorious Experiments With Layered Images

Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting

Duna Gant’s “Winter Wind” would be beautiful if printed on high-quality paper, framed, and hung on my living room wall. Warm sepia tones belie the cold sterility of a winter tree, but then we know the trees are only waiting for spring to sally forth. There is a suggestion of wind from the texture overlays.

“Dance V” has been enhanced by filters and texture layers, giving it the appearance of a watercolor painting. Gant uses the rule of thirds to place her avatar. The texture layer suggests a landscape with trees in the distance. I love the subdued colors.

With “Musical Evening” so much story is told with a piano, and a woman’s feet in elegant pumps. After all, sitting on the piano doesn’t usually begin until late in the evening, even with a chanteuse. The texture layer creates the feeling of age, of a long-ago memory. Gant uses the rule of thirds, placing the legs a third from the right. Light and shadow play a role, but as with many of Gant’s works, the colors are subdued. 

Duna Gant’s photostream is too diverse to describe easily. She experiments a lot and also creates art installations in-world such as “We Are Water” She has a delightful series of Dance photos that you can find in an album of their own. Checking out her albums is a great way to understand her work as she did it. 

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Comments

[Duna Gant]

Thank you very much for your post. A wonderful comment on my work. <3