An olive oil container of my mother's from her childhood home in Masnou, Spain. It has been in our house since before I can remember, so I think it will be interesting to try to use it in this project and find a new way to view it.
I used imagery of plants, Mayan calendars, stars, the Egyptian Goddess Isis, who is the goddess of life, and a lot of repetitive circular shapes in these first iterations. This was my first time using the photos I had taken specifically for the project, and I'm very happy with the results. By the end of these iterations I had a ton of layers, making it very difficult to work and signifying that maybe I should move on to a new batch of iterations. In another batch of iterations I went for a wackier/sillier approach on a "time goddess". This bunch of images still incorporates my original images of flowers and a body along with clocks, stars and galaxies, and in addition a pair of butterfly wings.
Almost finished with my Fantasy Appliance! I am still not convinced that the white outline around the hummingbird and oil container is the best, but I will continue thinking about it and editing it.
I've begun working on tracing and coloring my oil container in Illustrator. At the top you can see some experimental brush strokes. I plan to combine this with a flower that hummingbirds drink nectar from and create a fantasy carnivorous plant.
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