P#44: Bountiful Bean Bins
Bert Monroy's demonstrates what you can achieve with patterns in his Bean Bins painting
You'd think the time commitment Bert Monroy made with creating all the various patterns of the beans in his "Bean Bins" Photoshop painting would be enormous. Come to find out, that's not the case at all...
Patterns that Don't Look Like Patterns
Bert Monroy: "Bean Bins" is just a bunch of beans in different bins. Actually my wife shot the original shot at a little market just outside the Tokyo Fish Market. That is actually an experiment in patterns because all those beans in all the different bins, all these different kinds of beans is a lot of beans. It looks like I sat there and created all these beans and I didn't. (click the image for a larger version)
I really basically created a single bean which I then turned into a little cluster of beans, and then turned that into a pattern, and filled those bins with a pattern of beans. Now, so that it didn't look like a pattern, in an additional layer on top of all the other beans, I then placed other little beans in certain spots so that it broke up what the eye saw as a pattern so the end result does not look like a pattern.
Instead of spending four or five hours creating all of these beans, I did the whole thing in about a half hour by just creating a bunch of different patterns, filling it in, and then adding little shadows and stuff later to give it texture and movement, and so on. Basically it was an experiment in filling areas with patterns that didn't look like patterns.
In Summary
It's hard to believe that this painting of bean bins isn't a photography. Bert Monroy's art really showcases the potential that exists within Photoshop.
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