{"id":1056,"date":"2023-10-10T08:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-10-10T08:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1056"},"modified":"2025-09-24T12:43:19","modified_gmt":"2025-09-24T12:43:19","slug":"drawing-with-tape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/?p=1056","title":{"rendered":"Drawing with tape"},"content":{"rendered":"
I traced images of my 3D poppy heads because their pleasing sculptural forms came up well in some of my documentary photos and I felt this would translate well into this graphic medium.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I experimented using masking and electrical tape, crudely tracing the outline of two enlarged photographs, trying not to be too “tight”. <\/span><\/div>\n

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I overlaid both on top of black paper, which I think this adds an extra dimension, an extra layer of depth. I found that the starkness of the electrical tape meant that the poppy head drawn in black translated better than masking tape, which has a softer quality. However, I do like the juxtaposition of both and think that they work well when they are in relationship.<\/span><\/div>\n

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I created a third traced image and overlaid this again.<\/span><\/div>\n
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 I am really pleased with the graphic qualities and the interplay of all three layers and would like to work with these images further.<\/span><\/div>\n


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I traced images of my 3D poppy heads because their pleasing sculptural forms came up well in some of my documentary photos and I felt this would translate well into this graphic medium. I experimented using masking and electrical tape, crudely tracing the outline of two enlarged photographs, trying not to be too “tight”.  I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1056"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1056\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethanhemus.art\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}