In order to get exposure I enter some of my work in art contests. One of my pieces (The Human Fly) will be in the next print magazine issue of Direct Art, and several of my pieces were also accepted for Digital Arts: California‘s digital art competition/exhibition Wide Open Digital 2. I was pleasantly surprised…
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This is different from my other digital paintings in that it’s done from a scan of my physical, acrylic painting below. The painted version was based on a brush and India ink drawing I made first, then painted over, which is why it had bold black outlines. Because I worked directly in ink without any…
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There are different ways of making new art. To me this means to make a new image, something that doesn’t already exist, or isn’t just a variation on an overused theme. Many artists accomplish this by not doing it at all, but making some other sort of art that isn’t an image (conceptual art…). But…
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Imagine the field day I’m having with the tags! If you are thinking this was a cheap attempt to attract the hordes of people just looking for titillation, you are only half right, because it’s quite an elaborated and sophisticated attempt. Don’t think this is just a photo with some slick Photoshop filter applied to…
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Robot and monster battling it out to destruction.This started as a brushed India ink drawing, which I executed on the spot in one go. This was difficult because I had to invent simultaneously with drawing. Next time I think I’ll sketch it in pencil first. I added color with watercolor pencils, but eventually moved to…
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What can I do with just ink? That’s a lot of what these are about. I see this as a kind of challenge, and an excellent exercise for artists however far along they are in their careers. The technique is basically to just use ink and brushes (though one could use other implements), and keep…
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I’m not sure if this entirely works, but it was an experiment and generated more ideas for exploration. Obviously it uses a foreign object [tape] and tests use of negative space, foreground/background, and black in general. The drawing was done in one (long) session, and followed certain significant rules or parameters. I wanted to do…
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I’m not going to say what this is about. Look at it. It’s written in a universal language. I recommend clicking on it and looking at it for at least 30 seconds, otherwise you haven’t even given it a chance or tried to get it. People look at art in a way that is the…
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And then, once you have your file with 300 layers and texts, not only can you change all of the fonts at once, you can also crop it and enlarge the result without losing detail (because it’s vector text). I additionally tweaked the colors and moved around layers to improve the composition. Reminds me a…
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I know what you’re thinking. It looks like robot vomit, or the cat got into the yarn basket, and we’re seeing it through frosted glass smeared with ketchup and mustard. Close enough, because it barely holds together, and I’m not sure myself if I like it or not. It is the last in the EXPERIMENTAL…
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A conceptual piece (the third in a series) in which I establish certain rules and random elements, and then follow through the process. There are 99 curses against the 1%, but they are all in Wingdings font, which is made up of symbols, in which case they can’t be read. I would write a curse,…
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A conceptual digital work with 281 fonts, 281 words, and 281 layers. I used every font I have. For each layer in Photoshop, I choose a word off the top of my head, and each is assigned a font according to whichever is next in the list, and size and transparency through randomly generated numbers.…
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This is a light experimental piece I thought up, so I went ahead and did it The piece has 122 different colors, 122 different fonts, and 122 names of famous people (well, 121 + I threw myself in there for fun). Guess what it’s called? 122. Why 122 variations? That’s how many different colors there…
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This is a large format digital painting that can be printed 4 feet wide at magazine cover quality, and 8 feet wide at poster quality. It’s in a style reminiscent of classic American painters such as Edward Hopper and George Bellows, though that wasn’t exactly deliberate. It started as an experiment working in a different…
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Here’s the finished version. I’ll add another post with details, process, and my thoughts on it probably tomorrow.
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New work underway. Still in the initial sketchy phase. This time I’m working in the near polar opposite way of the last piece. No drawing first. I’m just blocking in color, and rather clumsily at that. Later it will take on a very painterly and Expressionistic flavor, I think. Depends on my imagination, which I…
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I’m going to share what this piece is about, how I did it, and why I think it’s good. If I wait for some critic to do it for me, I’ll need to have my consciousness transferred to a robot host, and then wait centuries before finally collapsing on the bank of some river, midday,…
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My attempt at rather Impressionist/Expressionist glasses.This is working with volumes, modeling, transparency, reflectivity, light and shadow. I also tried to incorporate related or sometimes complimentary colors.\
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I’ll write more about this in another post. I just wanted to throw it out there for people to see. Following are a couple close ups.
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The beast is alive! This is the B&W version. Next I’m going to work on putting it in color, partly just to see what it will turn out like. I don’t normally work like this at all, so I don’t know exactly what to expect.
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Manhattan. Why stencil over Banksy, and why a giant ugly bug? Artist, Eric Küns stenciled over You Complete Me, Banksy’s most famous piece from his October, month-long-residency in NY. Many were surprised at the audacity of someone painting over a world-famous artist at the peak of his recognition, but Küns argues it’s no big deal because Banksy…
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If you saw my last piece, you might be surprised at how different this one is from it. The last one looked like a painting and was all drawn from the imagination on the computer. This one is a very elaborate collage of photographs I took in Vientiane (I’ve lived in Asia for about 7…
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Here I’ll share details, the process, and my interpretation. Sometimes I forget that my art may not be accessible to others. Not only do they not share my background or social underpinnings, they don’t have access to my process and haven’t spent dozens of hours crafting the piece in question. We tend to think we…
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My latest piece, just finished. This one reeks of me. I think anyone who knows my work, and especially my early paintings, would instantly know who was behind this image. I did it completely from my imagination, in a not-so-efficient manner. I tried an experiment of starting with a composition and color scheme I liked,…
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These are my more serious new images. All are digitally created using only Photoshop, my own photos, drawings, and endless tablet work. Bellow the “gallery” are all the same images in standard format. Below are the same images. Some have links to in depth posts about them with close-ups, and background information about the process,…
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A classic theme of our modern era. In the past you had your crucifixions, odalisques, cupids, men on horseback, bathers, ballerinas, depictions of heaven and hell, the Sphinx, Madonna and child, Venus, Leda and the Swan… Often one will hear the postmodern argument that nothing new can be said or depicted, my counter argument to…
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I haven’t done a lot of non-representational pieces, and that has something to do with me thinking they are a cop out. Typically, one doesn’t have to deal with subject matter or meaning. One doesn’t have to call upon one’s life experience (or lack thereof) or have anything significant to say. Just flinging paint about…
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