For this project, I am heavily inspired by the "trippy" colours in abstract, psychedelic artworks, graphic design and photography. This is an aesthetic I'd like to convey in my video art submission. There are two creators I am particularly inspired by, as they both use colour as a way to push the aesthetic boundaries of the image.
Nathan Head
Photographer and "colourist" Nathan Head has long inspired me through his experiments with vibrant surreal colours in his images of nature & architecture. He used Photoshop tools to re-colour his photography, injecting various hues of pink, orange and blue and using inversion. I have employed colour tools in Photoshop, Premiere Pro and After Effects in the past to achieve similar surreal, hyper-saturated looks, and would like to combine this with the effect of photoelasticity, and already mind-bending display of colour. Nathan Head also uses water as a theme, such as droplets and waves, often using seascapes in his work. I enjoy the textural quality to these images so I would like to use water as a subject also.
Alycia Rainaud (Maalavidaa)
French designer Alycia Rainaud's art is self-described as "visual experiments through a highly saturated yet dark aesthetic". She achieves these "holographic", glitch art-style looks in Photoshop and Illustrator, with a print-based graphic design background but a versatile skillset for digital art and branding. The fluidity in her work reminds me of outer space and artistic depictions of the cosmos, which strengthens the psychedelic denotations one experiences viewing her pieces. This fluid quality also reminds me of an abstract photography technique using soap, oil, water, a clear glass surface and a colourful background, taken with a macro lens. Here is one of the articles I looked at to discover this process.
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