Very excited to announce that I have created my “Donna Kazo” YouTube channel to showcase videos I’ve made of my artwork. It now has seven videos of my Dimensional Abstracts!
Since I began experimenting with deep textures within my acrylics, the play of light and shadow over their sculpted surfaces has intrigued and delighted me. It’s why the artwork on this website will have several views with different angles of light falling across the surface, so all of you can also enjoy how the composition of the piece is never static. For years, my wise daughters have asked me when I was going to start making videos, and believe me, I wanted to, but couldn’t figure out how.
Enter my new iPad Air which I treated myself to a few months ago, as a birthday present! Not only is the camera just fantastic, but it also came with iMovie and GarageBand. This technology was all I needed to become a “movie producer” in my own little corner of the world. I also purchased an LED light “wand” as I call it, made by Situ in Sarasota, and an easel clamp-on style Ott-Lite that has a long flexible neck, and between these two wonderful lamps, am now able to cast a very oblique light over my sculpted surfaces. Now I have the type of light that cinematographers love to use in movies, because side lighting adds so much drama and warmth to the shot. And my new iPad takes fab photos with only the single light source!
Of course there’s been a learning curve, and I must permit my perfectionist self to be a beginner, but I’m proud to say that yesterday, February 25, 2022, I published my seventh video on my Donna Kazo YouTube channel! As much as I’d love to embed these videos into this website, that’s a bit beyond me at the moment, so you’ll have to head over there to watch them. Each has its own unique soundtrack: the first two, featuring the first collection of Dimensional Abstracts that were inspired by the colors of the American Southwest, have original acoustic guitar compositions by a young Fort Lauderdale musician, Scott Crain. The third video, “Ocean Fantasy” has ocean sounds because it features one of my favorite aerial “seascapes” as the “actor.” The fourth, “Thunder Dragon” is accompanied by a thunderstorm; however, it’s very hard to find copyright-free natural sounds like those. Which is why the next three videos have sonic tapestries produced by yours truly thanks to GarageBand. A bit scary, but too much fun to let the fear overwhelm me.
Now, not only do my Dimensional Abstracts get to show off their uniqueness to the world, I will be able to enjoy them even after they’ve been purchased and hang on the wall of a happy collector.
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