I chose to take the second half of my 3-D soap project and use it for the 2-dimensional image because the images below made me think of icebergs and how the ice, before it is exposed to oxygen above the water has these bright, saturated hues of green and blue.
Comparisons to icebergs that have turned over (images found from a Google search) :
Here is the painting that I wanted to work with since it had different variations of icebergs and glaciers to inspire how to warp and shape the cutouts from my soap photos. The painting is William Bradford's Vanishing Ice.
Below are some of the cutouts after I altered their color to both overlap and add new pieces of ice to the image.
Aaaaand the final image.
It was a test in color distortion, angles, and warping since I needed the sky and ice to match the ink in the soap as much as possible; the cut sections from the soap photos were also very linear, so working with the lines to match up with the horizon and events happening was a lot of trial and error. I played with shadow and highlighting quite a lot in regards to foreground and background; I initially wanted the sky on the left to be darker so the darker spire of soap/glacier would not stick out, but I actually like the balance between it and the dark ship on the right. The same balance was achieved with the blue soap/ice in the left foreground as in the right mid-ground. I used different bits of blue and pink throughout to try and maintain the different weights of color as well as to vary up the levels of saturation a little.
All in all, I like this result. It is an artistic rendering of explorers trying to sail through the arctic, a struggle painted in neon as I struggled with soap, albeit in the heat of Florida.
