Artwork Update and Looking Back

Hello, I wanted to update the status on my latest art projects. First and foremost lets talk about the cosplay stuff. Now I know I have a separate blog for the work, but, I am starting a very interesting and artistic take on the subject over the next few years. I plan on making a series exploring the artists behind the costumes, once I have a few examples I'll post them here in another update. The second big project I'm working on is my next project which Emerge Artist Collective. I don't want to give away too much of the over all theme yet, but I will talk about my project a bit. From a technical side it's all about shooting miniature items and making fantasy based, composited landscapes from them. It's a practically shot project which is then composited in photoshop, more on that later too.

Moving back in time to the last Emerge project, though I did post the final result of the project Dana O'Regan and I did together, I never posted all the images I took of the project during it's course, which was a huge amount. The reason I'm thinking about the ice project is because of the way it was shot. I tried to give it height and dominance, and make it look huge, like a strange landscape. To say that the work didn't influence my current project would be a lie. So I wanted to share that catalog before I move forward. This a huge collection, and very interesting things came out of it. Please enjoy.

I also shot some very interesting pinhole during this project, one of which made it into my Pinhole show last November.

All and all there was some seriously beautiful and inspired work that came out of that project, I'm glad I had such a great opportunity to work with one of the best local artists on it. It's now time to move forward and create new works, I look forward to updating more often and sharing my work.

-Larry M. Holder

 

Dana O'Regan Catalog Shoot

I had the opportunity to help out about a week ago in shooting some images of local Fredericton artist, Dana O'Regan's, more resent work. Though photographer Chris Giles did the lighting and most of the shots for the catalog while I helped Dana hang his work, I did capture a good number of detail shots. It's probably some of the most interesting art being produced locally and is a blast to photograph. There's so many angles, contrasts and interesting forms to to be seen, form a photographic standpoint, one could loose themselves for hours in the work. Here's my collection of images which includes some documentary on the setup and shooting of the collection.

Pretty awesome work!

-Larry M. Holder

Making a Seat - My Chair Project with Emerge

I few weeks ago I took place in charity auction with my fellow Emerge Artist Collective members, the "Take A Seat 'Chair-ity' Auction!" at the Andrew & Laura McCain Art Gallery. I wasn't displaying photos though, instead I built a physical chair, way out of left field for my major discipline, but with all the prop stuff I've been working on as of late for costumes, it fit well into that category. In fact I started the base of this chair for a completely different project, back when I was working on my steampunk inspired series and never had reason to finish it till now. The finished piece is constructed mainly of cardboard tubes, taped, glued and painted together. I can safely say this thing ate a huge amount of acrylic paint and a few bottles of wood glue before it was done. I had this crazy idea to put a light source in the back, I used LED christmas lights inside a box that just sat on the back, fairly effective, but not as bright as I wanted, had to do a super long exposer for it to show in a photo.

The base and seat are made of MDF and the side braces are steel. I called it "Seat of Petroleum" cause it looked like it was leaking all sorts of nasty from the paint job, so I felt it fit the look. I should mention too that the vent the light comes through is a plastic heating vent cover. Here's some more details.

And finally I turned on the smoke machine and did another long exposer for full effect.

All around a pretty fun and different project.

-Larry M. Holder