Making mistakes

For most of us non-computers, an inevitable part of the learning process is making mistakes. In the spirit of embracing every mistake as a learning opportunity, I bring you today’s concise post.

Take chances, make mistakes, get messy.

Ms. Frizzle

Despite what I like to think are my best attempts, I can’t predict every challenge in my creative process. But, when mistakes are inevitably made, I can take steps to learn from them.

I had planned to post more timelapse videos of my painting process—or at least what my process looks like at the moment. Unfortunately, my footage is unusable; my camera's shutter speed was out of sync with my LED lighting. This timing resulted in rolling bands across the clips. After hours of unsuccessful attempts to manipulate the footage, I decided to scrap it, move on, and learn how to prevent this phenomenon before it becomes a problem.

Instead of sharing the botched timelapse, I’ll share photos of my final paintings.

Technical Note

In order to fix the rolling bands, I need to change the shutter speed of my camera or my light source. Because iOS does not allow me to make adjustments to the shutter speed of my timelapse, I plan to download an app that has the settings I need.

One day I hope to have a pro-sumer camera that will make these sorts of adjustments easier.

Diatom Mandala

egg tempera on panel
5 in diameter
2021

© Katie Toepp 2021

Tetracyclus

egg tempera on panel
3 x 3 in
2021

© Katie Toepp 2021

Cyclostephanos

egg tempera on panel
3 x 3 in
2021

© Katie Toepp 2021