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More New Summer Pastels by Victoria Taylor-Gore

 
"Her Shoe" © Victoria Taylor-Gore, 2010, pastel, 13 x 29 inches 

 
"Crossing" © Victoria Taylor-Gore, 2010, pastel, 13 x 29 inches 

 
"In the Room" © Victoria Taylor-Gore, 2010, pastel, 13 x 29 inches 

"The Road Below" © Victoria Taylor-Gore, 2010, pastel, 13 x 29 inches

 
"The Motel" © Victoria Taylor-Gore, 2010, pastel, 11 x 29 inches

These are a few of my new summer pastels...working on a new series of interiors and exteriors for the Alexandra Stevens Gallery in Santa Fe.  These images are also part of a new video called "The Drive" that I am doing about this series. The video will be finished in a few weeks, so check back for more images and the completed video.  You can see the video (with my pastels as the backgrounds) at http://vimeo.com/13315406 .

"Carnival" by Victoria Taylor-Gore

"Carnival" by Victoria Taylor-Gore (featuring song "Balloon Girl" by Hungry Lucy from Victoria Taylor-Gore on Vimeo.

Video and editing - Victoria Taylor-Gore
http://www.victoriataylorgore.com

Music - "Balloon Girl" by Hungry Lucy
Purchased music license from http://www.jamendo.com/en/

Cast - Meredith Dunn

This is a video I did during a photography shoot of Meredith Dunn at a local amusement park. A still from this video was included in the "15 & One: Fifteen Photographers and One Model" group photography show at Artgecko Gallery in Amarillo, Texas in July, 2010. Artgecko Gallery - http://www.artgecko.com/. I'm not a professional photographer (I'm a fine artist with a passion for video), so I appreciate being included in the show...it was a great learning experience for me!

Shot with a Canon 7D, Tokina 16-50mm f2.8 lens. Edited in Adobe Premiere Pro CS4, with "Aged Film" effects from Digieffects (for the grainy texture), and filters from Photoshop Extended CS4 (added the surface blur and watercolor filters) to give the video a soft, textural, and dreamy/aged film effect. I also used my Zacuto Z-Finder Pro 3x, and it really helped me keep clear focus on the model.

This was my first video shoot with a model, and thanks to model Meredith Dunn for her professional and expressive performance and cooperation :)

"The Drive" by Victoria Taylor-Gore (Preview)

"The Drive" by Victoria Taylor-Gore (Preview) from Victoria Taylor-Gore on Vimeo.

Video, Art, and Editing by Victoria Taylor-Gore
http://www.victoriataylorgore.com
http://www.anartjournal.com (blog)

Music "Day After Day" by Pawel Blaszczak
Music license purchased from http://www.shockwave-Sound.com

This is a preview for a long project I am doing this summer. I'm using my own pastels for the backgrounds for the video, and mixing in real objects (like the antique toy car) into the scenes. Check back in a few weeks for the final video.

"The Wandering Stars" by Victoria Taylor-Gore

"The Wandering Stars" by Victoria Taylor-Gore (Tribute to Georges Méliès) from Victoria Taylor-Gore on Vimeo.

"The Wandering Stars" - is my own remix of "L'éclipse du soleil en pleine lune" by Georges Méliès. Méliès added magic to filmmaking, so this is my tribute to his surreal imagery. He is regarded as "The Father of Special Effects," and Charlie Chaplin said he was "the alchemist of light."

...more about Méliès here: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0617588/bio

Video and Editing by Victoria Taylor-Gore
http://www.victoriataylorgore.com

Extracts from "L'éclipse du soleil en pleine lune" by Georges Méliès (1907) - from the Prelinger Archive (public domain): http://www.archive.org/details/L_Eclipse_Du_Soleil_En_Pleine_Lune

Music - "Hippy Trippy" by Gavin Courtie & Liz Radford
Music license purchased from http://www.shockwave-sound.com/

Background image: Hubble Telescope image: http://www.nasa.gov/multimedia/imagegallery/image_feature_142.html

I edited footage of "L'éclipse du soleil en pleine lune" by Georges Méliès (1907) in Adobe After Effects CS4 and Adobe Premiere Pro CS4.