My Outer Banks Art Gallery

I love to create unique art with the images I take. In my home I have an art gallery where I display images of our grandchildren. Images that started as a photo and were transformed into graphic black and white art. I am currently working on six new images for the gallery.  The trick to these types of images is finding the right image to work with, it has to have the right amount of light, shadow and midtones to make an effective high key image.

Anybody can do this on a wall in their home, create your own art gallery. It’s not the same as a wall of photos, all the frames are the same, and it is limited to black and white high contrast images. Personalize it to show your interests. My favorite interest just happens to be my grandchildren. But you could choose flowers, trees, animals, extreme closeup images of objects. Some people love high fashion and would find a wall of images of Jimmy Choo shoes cool. There are a lot of possibilities, so go for it.

My images are all 16×20 on masonite for sturdiness and durability. The size is common which makes it much easier to find a large number of frames to fit.

Here is a photo of my gallery wall as I have had it for a long time. Today I am painting the wall and when I rehang the paintings, they will all be butted up against each other for a more powerful impact. This also will give me room to add more images to my ever expanding family!

 

 

Here are a few images I am working with for the new display: