Cajsa Lilliehook covers the best in virtual world screenshot art and digital painting
I'm back from a short hiatus during a real life move, so let's re-start this column with a tip on how I find many of my favorite images from the Second Life Flickr community: Click great artists' Faves.
Automatia’s untitled portrait is striking with its vivid red, its incandescent white, and its velvety black. The color contrasts are bold and caught my attention as I jumped off my starting point in my favorite Flickr game, Surfing the Faves. It’s a great way to find new people to feature and to follow. I kicked off today with Zambrotta Zedark’s Faves. I featured him two weeks ago.
Now I just need to check out Automatia’s Faves. To see where fave surfing takes me, click here:
Ichiro Halcali’s “At Elvion on 21.Jan.24” is a beautifully composed landscape. The land takes up the bottom third while the sky fills the top two-thirds. You can see the man looking up, his eyes taking you to the flock of birds. The two trees also illustrate a common composition technique, creating or finding diagonal lines in your picture. There is the line from the boater along the rightmost branch of the big tree up to the flock of birds, but you can also see that both trees are placed at the center of where diagonal lines meet.
Take a look at this image with my composition mark-up:
Now let’s check out Ichiro’s Faves:
Harper Rose’s "Πούλα με ακόμα μια φορά..Δε με πειράζει.Πούλα με λοιπόν στο ξαναλέω." which Google Translate tells me says, “"Sell me one more time..I don't mind. So sell me I say again." is a striking example of using diagonals, isn’t it? Her body forms the diagonals that fill the frame. A scattering of daisies adds some contrast with their white petals. This picture is absolutely luscious.
Now for Harper’s Faves -- many a bit too racy for browsing while on a coffee break, but here's a great one:
Jax Ronin’s “Sunset Breeze” is a fabulous seascape. The horizon breaks at exactly a third of the frame. There’s an interesting horizontal break into thirds that could be serendipity, but if you draw vertical lines at each third of the picture, you will see how the light fading as it gets further from the sun also creates bands of brighter, the middle brightness, and the darkest. Of course, the silhouetted dandelion with its fragile parachutes carrying seeds aloft is amazing.
And who will we find in Jax’s Faves? Note: definitely don’t click his Faves at the office, either!
Titus Palmira’s “Don’t Believe Everything You Think” is stunning. Not that I love seeing someone near tears, but isn’t it wonderful that our avatars can be so expressive now? The slightly dirty face, the tear-dampened eyes, the sideways glance. Such an excellent picture of heartbreak.
And the Fave surfing goes on…
All images copyright the various artists.
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Cajsa’s Choices is devoted to unique, artistic, and innovative virtual world-based images and screenshots that showcase the medium as an art form and Second Life as a creative platform. (Generally not images that fit on this Bingo card.)
Cajsa Lilliehook is a sixteen year resident of Second Life, where she owned a photo studio, spent several years as a DJ at The Velvet, and for her first SL job, cleaned up prim trash. She co-founded and runs the It’s Only Fashion blog with her best friend Gidge Uriza. She also has a book review blog, Tonstant Weader Reviews and a cooking blog, Single Serving Recipes. She spends a lot of time researching and reporting on Republican sexual predators. In her first life, she is a retired grassroots leader who has worked for economic and social justice issues most of her life. She is also the minion of a cat named Nora.
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