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daveb 4: Woman #2

Artist: daveb (email: dabr@mindspring.com)

Actual dimensions(WxH in inches): 4.5 x 6.8 - Material: Nasco Safety-Kut - Feb2004
 
This is based on an untitled(?) photograph by Eric Boutilier-Brown (http://www.evolvingbeauty.com/) and used by permission. I modified the original greyscale image into a 1-bit-color (pure black and white) graphic. It took me about 1.5 hours in image preparation and 3 hours to carve it. The laser image was heat-transfered to the Saftey-Kut and carved with gouges and a hobby knife.

The format of this carve is much larger than I generally work on. Currently, I'm not comfortable with my skill at cleanly printing these larger images. However, I sized this to fit on a page of the Carving Consortium's Swapzine (a limited edition bi-monthly carving "zine", which is produced totally in 1-bit black-and-white).

My photo-to-graphic preparation process is basically modifying the different areas of the photo based on both the detail and "feel" I want. Those areas are then merged together into the final graphic and transfered to the carving medium. Some images work well when taken as a small number of large areas. Others not only require numerous areas to be individually adjusted, but require manual "tweeking" to further simplify the image. I find it fascinating that a single photo can yield numerous versions of a final graphic... all with different "feels". Since people tend to be so sensitive to faces, this effect is especially apparent when I work with portraits.

last updated 18Feb2004