Saturday, September 21, 2024

Echelon Dream - 152

Every once in awhile there is an Echelon piece that does not quite seem like a Twilight of Echelon image, so it must be a dream. I’m still wondering who or what is dreaming … and what does it all mean?



Saturday, September 7, 2024

Back in Time - No.154

Quite often, creating a new Echelon work starts with creating a new spaceship or Flying Thing. Then I build a scene around it. A ship will start as a simple shape or silhouette and I add just minimal features. They don’t get too involved as I am searching for a certain expression. Most Echelon works each have their own ‘new’ flying thing’ but sometimes I need to use one more than once, as in the Episode below. 

This scene below started with the large central looming object (which could be a ship or flying thing) but was created in tandem with the ground lines. Everything builds then forms. In this scene the ships were the last to arrive and were taken from a previous scene.




No.147 - Big City

  As often mentioned, an Echelon scene will start by constructing a flying craft of some kind on a gradated sky. It’s a somewhat simple proc...