The first objects I explored were the trees they had captivated me when viewing them with the Kinect so i was excited about seeing what they could generate, I started with a default palette consisting of the full range of colours. The tress immediately pop out in very bright colours I quite like the imagery but though I should tame the colours. I found an image of autumn leaves and use that to grab my palette from, the photo was vibrant but applying that to my trees made it flat and lifeless, I next tried a palette from Van Gough’s start night again the way the colours played out the image was flat, I then went to a vibrant red and orange this was better but I preferred my first lurid images to the more subtle ones. Interestingly the brighter the colours the better these images have worked for me, as soon as the saturation drops the textures make the works look like they are fabric. I like keeping the images with un unreal characteristic and running with non natural colours seems to achieve this.
After loosing momentum with the tree I started working a few of the other images, the one that really stuck with we was of a ride on lawn mower. I think this was down to the object being easily recognisable (it doesn’t seem as popular finding abstract shapes in clouds as it is finding more obvious objects)