Saturday, December 16, 2023

Digital Collages Included in Photography Exhibition

 

© Betty Butler, Setting Sunflowers of Autumn, Digital Collage, 2023

I am honored to have two of my pieces included in the Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C. One of the works, Setting Sunflowers of Autumn above, alludes to shorter days and earlier fall sunsets. Like the petals above, seasonal leaves also sport yellow, orange, and scarlet hues. In addition, I am intrigued by fractals, nature's self-repeating forms at various scales. The center disc of a sunflower grows in a fractal spiral, so I created a green and black background texture to echo this effect.

More Autumn Colors, in Pastel

Pastel drawing

Although, Autumn Colors in a Vase above, is a pastel still-life, it was inspired by the season's colors. To describe my vision, I wrote a short narrative after a drive among the hills where I live: in Wisconsin, along the Mississippi, autumn brings a feast for the eyes. I noticed this driving a winding road between the bluffs, rolling and climbing toward the blue sky and then plunging into the valleys below. The mid-green trees displayed sun-kissed touches of yellow, and I even noted an occasional shock of red. Interspersed among the hills were farmlands offering a scene of golden stalks of corn. Around the curve, I observed beige prairie grasses that rolled up and down the terrain.