Icon post :)

[sigune]

Some time ago, I amused myself with making a number of icons out of pictures that I like. You can find the lot of them (= 37) here, but below are a few samples. Please feel free to use any that you like. (This is my first time using my LJ Scrapbook. If there is anything that doesn't work, please let me know and I'll try and sort it out as fast as I can...)

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Some of them look odd in the gallery, but click them and you'll see the real thing :). Oh - and when I made the woman with the moon sickle I had lunafishin mind, so if she'd claim that one I'd rather nobody else did.

Comments

[sylvanawood.livejournal.com]

I find it difficult. First, I don't have your eye for cropping. Second, my fav art is mostly expressionist, cubist and abstact. It looks so ... confusing if you select a small part from that... But it's a lot of fun.
At the moment I'm on a little Holbein trip, since there's a Holbein exhibition in Basel and I'm rather miffed that I won't have the time to go and look...

[sigune.livejournal.com]

Yes, some things definitely work better than others... Much as I love black and white, it's a lot more difficult to make an attractive b/w icon than to make a coloured one. Then, also, pictures that allow you to zoom in to a detail yield better results than others. If you try (or have to) show too much, it just doesn't look good. You have to 'say' a lot in a small space. Sometimes it doesn't matter that the image isn't recognisable, but at other times it does.

But it's certainly fun to experiment :). The red horse certainly looks good! (Is that Die Brücke? I'm an ignoramus when it comes to Expressionism, though I do like it.)

[sylvanawood.livejournal.com]

It's 'Blaue Reiter' actually. The horse is by Franz Marc. I love his paintings.