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Matinee: 'Christmas Tree'
21 December 2024
Saturday matinees long ago let us escape from the ordinary world to the island of the Swiss Family Robinson or the mutinous decks of the Bounty. Why not, we thought, escape the usual fare here with Saturday matinees of our favorite photography films?
So we're pleased to present the 583rd in our series of Saturday matinees today: Christmas Tree.
In this video, watercolorist Jane Betteridge turns a piece of paper into a tree she decorates for Christmas with nothing more than paint. It's faster than real time, fortunately, so it only takes 3:36.
She describes her approach to the medium:
My inspiration is drawn from the landscape; from countryside to seaside. I have an experimental innovative approach to watercolor aiming to nudge the use of the medium a little further by being venturesome and investigative ways in my journey to produce free, lively works of art.
We found it inspirational not only for how she built the image stroke by stroke, improving the images as she worked, but also for that freedom she speaks of that creates a lively image.
In a sense, it's all what we photographers call post production. The image, captured in her mind's eye, is developed on the paper. And post production is something every photographer can enjoy no matter what camera we happen to have.