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Video artist and indie video producer Karen Landey, produced nine issues of INDIE ARTS: The DVD Magazine. This cutting edge DVD format features videotaped interviews with mixed media and collage artists and offers ideas for indie artists to take their art to the next level and ways to get their artwork seen.  She is now working on her video art that she is submittiing to film fests and posting her video doodles and digital collages to this digital sketchbook.

Video Art by Karen Landey – Entangled

Am working on getting my DVD of video art   released early next year.  I’ve been working on this project for over a year now and  I’m excited to get my work out there.  Details will be available on my blog as soon as I have them.  It will have 15 pieces on it, using video, motion graphics and digital collage creating dreamy, surreal, lyrical art.  This is a “final” draft of the cover art although I will no doubt tweak it over the next few weeks.

Summer house

Love the idea of the abundance of summer still lingering on even though the days are getting shorter and shorter. Overgrown, luxurious and fragrant, the promise of another summer season is assured. Used Photoshop filters ink outlines and film grain then blended that with the original image to create a blurry image that also accents the many edges and lines in the collage.

Halloween morning

Took my camera out early this morning to take photos of the Halloween decorations in the neighborhood and came across this group of sunflowers that I thought were so beautiful.  Used find edges in Photoshop and a curves adjustment to bring out the contrast in this photo.  It brought out some interesting edge effects as well.

Wild horses

Have been working on this digital collage for days now and was finally able to finish it this morning.  I just knew it was done when all the elements came together.  It doesn’t look anything like the original and I had to be willing to completely let go of all that work I had done before.

Turning colors

Took my video camera and headed into the Columbia River Gorge, one of the most beautiful places on earth, in my humble opinion.  The fall foliage was just beginning to turn, but it was misty and mysterious and I got some gorgeous (pun intended) footage. Stopped by a mineral hot springs area for a soak and took a picture of the place.  Added some fx to to it of course!  Will use it in a video art piece in the future…

Entangled

Finished new video art piece, “Entangled” in which I use dreamy, slow motion tango dancing footage.  I also used footage that suggested entanglement and isolation using digital collages and After Effects with video clips.  This piece is an exploration of intimacy, separation, connection and isolation.

Eclectic – a video art doodle

Video Art by Karen Landey using Adobe After Effects and numerous filters for an eclectic combo of visual effects.

A little magic

Took a break from video work to play with printing on paint swatch sheets I picked up while waiting to get a key made yesterday. The image is from vintage sheet music. I used Golden’s new Digital Ground which is supposed to help with printing on non-porous material, but it streaked badly. So I used a little Photoshop magic on it.  I’m also using the vintage image in my new video art piece.

Choices

I’ve been putting together assets for a new video art piece so am creating background collages on which to overlay live action video.  I’m so in love with arches, seems all my work has at least a hint of them.  I think its a way to enter into a new realm, the choice being critical to the experience.  Much like life and the many choices made during the day that change a life forever.

Sign of the Times

Used Adobe Illustrator’s Live Trace function to convert a tiny jpeg photo of a cafe sign to a vector image that I could size up to a 300 resolution graphic for this digital collage.  Added background catalog image and more distress to the image of the cafe sign that was already in ruins.  Finally, changed the hue to a teal blue color until I was finally satisfied with the finished collage.