Feed the Fish

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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300 Messages

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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122 names, colors & fonts.

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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New art: Mindscape 1

I just completed this image to my satisfaction. Like so many of my pieces, it started as an experiment. The idea was to make a non-representational image with all the qualities of being representational: foreground, background, modelling, and shading. There are figures, recesses, protuberances, open space, geographic and architectural elements. All the building-blocks of reality,…

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Sensational Non-Representational Art

Some of the best abstract & non-representational art I’ve painstakingly scoured off of Deviantart and included in my group, the “Fine Art Asylum”. Let’s just get out of the way the difference between “abstract” and “non-representational,” which are usually used interchangeably, including by yours truly. “Abstract” is similar to “distorted”, as in an altered version…

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