If you are new to this series all the images are based on recent photos of me after basically being fed through a neural network (which can change age, gender, etc.), then edited and painted using various programs. None of the people actually exist, and thus they are like self portraits from alternate universes. Dear…
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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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I’m pretty happy with this piece. It blends several of my approaches, resulting in a non-cliched Sci-Fi, mixed with an Impressionist treatment, Baconian distortions, and faux painterly flairs including Van Gogh brush strokes. So, I’m mixing my Fine Art with the Sci-Fi (now “retro”) of my childhood, which represented a window of escape from quotidian…
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I did this for a drawing class in community college way back when. Let me do the math. 27 years ago, when I was 21. I think the teacher (now deceased) was a little shocked. Shows influences of Bacon in the treatment of interiors and flattening of picture plane. It’s among my favorites of my…
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A pencil and marker drawing of You tube prankster Ed Bassmaster wearing a hairpiece, fake teeth, and a ridiculous expression, at the instant his DMV photo was snapped, as taken from his hidden camera. What separates this from fan art, you may be wondering. One is that if you Google “Ed Bassmaster drawing” you will…
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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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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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One of the very best artists I’ve discovered through prowling around on the internet (in this case at Deviantart) is Andrew Newton, who did rather tight photo-realistic paintings in the past (the type that show every wrinkle, reflection, and wayward hair); but whose new work has broken out imaginatively into new terrain that faithfulness to…
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