Preview

Tomorrow is the art show! I only had a chance to finish three pieces in time. So, hopefully they will be worth it. All of my pieces are starkly different in styles, with an acrylic on canvas, mixed media on paper, and an ink drawing. Here are some close-ups of my works...







I will have photos of the show and pictures of my work up soon. I finally had a chance to check out the space where the show is earlier tonight. The location is great, and it has tons of space.

Art Star Party Part II 11-28-09

I am going to be in an art show on November 28th in Augusta, GA. Everyone should come and check it out! It is a group show with a ton of other Augusta artists including...
Rachel chambers
Jay jacobs
Brandon moss
Leela hoehn
Raoul pacheco
Grady sizemore
Chelsea senecal
Erik Russell
Weylin traugott

The show will be at...
Grady's house
804 Ellis street.
Augusta, GA 30901
-Saturday, November 28

The show is starting at 10:00pm with a free raffle at 1:00am, a piece by each artist will be raffled off. Stay till 2:00am to see DJ Joycette!!

Every artist was encouraged to design their own flyer. I will post some of the others as soon as i get the files, but here's mine.
Art Star Party Part II Flyer


Here is a hi-res version of the flyer if you feel inclined to print out some copies and spread the word-

Figure Combination

Figure Combination is a simple animation experiment. The technique has been on my mind for a long time now. I cut out images from a live action video, printed them out, pasted the images together, painted over the frames, scanned them back into the computer, and strung them back together in Premiere. It is a type of rotoscoping. I hope to make a larger more complex animation using this technique.

Figure Combination from Peter Russell on Vimeo.

Edit- I have no idea why that white strip is appearing above the video, the image does not extend past the black border.

DVD COVER

A good friend of mine(Morgan Mcneal) asked me to design a dvd cover/cd label for his short film Better You.

Traditional + Digital x2 | Traditional

Here are a few things i have done lately that i think are worthy of noting .
I have been experimenting with editing my work in photoshop lately, and this is what i've come up with. I'm trying to wrap my head around the possibilities of digital work.
-Traditional+Digital-




Pulled out my good old friend gouache for this one. After working with acrylic for so long i forgot how easy gouache is to manipulate after laying down paint.
-Traditional-

Video Uploaded

I finally uploaded my video to Vimeo!
This was a self assigned project for my Art and Technology class last semester. It was an exploration of the comparison of light and the human figure. The idea that light and the body are both comprised of vibrations, and their similar dispersion over time and distance. I don't know if any of the concepts come across, but i learned a lot about timing and editing. It was created completely from still images i took with my digital camera, edited in Photoshop and animated in Final Cut Pro. The music was created independently by a good friend of mine, which i thought fit the imagery perfectly.

Figure|Light from Peter Russell on Vimeo.

I had troubles with the saturation of the video when uploading it, due to compression and file types. You can tell the difference when comparing the still images posted previously to the video. I tried to work around it the best i could, but it is innate to the file compression with certain file types.

PR.

COLOR

Here are some portrait/color studies i have been working on lately.