 Yesterday I was talking with my good buddy, Bob Coates. We've been friends for a long time and as I look back on his work over the years, I think he's creating some of the most stunning images of his entire career as a photographer and artist. A few of his images have been included in guest posts here on the SCU site. They're worth going back to enjoy. Well, he's doing a lot of exciting things with Panasonic's GX7 and is a member of their Luminary team. I'd heard about a little project he took on while teaching a program in Michigan. He had decided to use anything he found on the way to the conference to create art. Well, it was a rusted paper clip that caught his eye and he was determined to demonstrate that anything could be turned into art with the right skill set! He finished with a standing ovation - perhaps the highest compliment any artist can receive from their peers! Skip Cohen On his blog he wrote: I just came back from doing a program in Michigan for the Professional Photographers of Michigan. The program was on my ‘Photo – Synthesis’ system of creating art from photographic images. When I do these programs I always try to use images from the area that were captured within the 24 hour period before the program begins. This time I thought I’d give myself a really strong challenge. I wandered around the parking lot with my LumixGX7 and found a paper clip in the parking lot that had been weathered and run over by cars and was bent and just a (beautiful) mess. And I made the attempt to create art from said paperclip. There was also a stone fountain out front with a lot of different slate plates that I was able to photograph to gather textures. When I announced to the class what I was going to do I saw looks of horror, bewilderment and just plain disbelief. I continued anyway. About one third of the way through the program I started to feel that maybe I had made a mistake. I wasn’t sure this was going to be successful… I persevered. Everyone had an opportunity to see the thought process as I work towards creating artistic images from simple objects. 
Images by Bob Coates. All Rights Reserved.
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9/29/2013 01:17:17 am
Yep that is the Bob I know from Summer Session...watching an artist create art...the way Bob does it helped me just get out and play myself. You learn by doing...you Go Bob! Your comment will be posted after it is approved.
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