the artist's statement
- Johny Alives
- "It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye" from THE LITTLE PRINCE. When people ask me "WHAT KIND OF ARTIST ARE YOU?"... I tell them, I am a painter ... they ask "OH oil or watercolor?".... I say, neither... I paint with light ... they give me a strange look.... IF I have the time and I think they are really interested, then I clarify... I use a camera and a scanner as a starting point, and then where it leads me I never know ... the end result may be a light capture from my scanner, or a manipulated photo, using many different computer enhancement tools including photoshop...... sometimes I create something that does not even look like anything recognizable. Then sometimes, I use mixed media.... mixing a printed inkjet picture with maybe a magazine transfer using wintergreen oil, or adding paint, or using sandpaper to rough it up ....in the end I have something original that never existed before.... just a splash of pixel dust.
Showing posts with label windy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label windy. Show all posts
Tuesday, January 11, 2011
beauty of decay -yellow daisy
One from my "Beauty of Decay" series. This is "Yellow Daisy 1". Again it is one of my scanography art pieces. I had given my wife some Gerber Daisies for her birthday, and she was ready to toss them out after they had lived out their life as a bouquet. She saw wilted flowers. I saw a beauty in the soft pedals that had fallen all around the vase - a wabi sabi moment.
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dreamlike,
fantasy,
flowers,
gerber daisy,
scan art,
scanography,
surreal,
wilted,
windy,
yellow
Saturday, December 11, 2010
Dandelion Dreams
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dreamlike,
scan art,
scanography,
soft,
windy
Wednesday, December 8, 2010
Dandelion Dreams 2
Scanography Art
Another one in my Dandelion Dreams series......yes, it is a scan and not a capture from a camera...... I tried to create the illusion of the wind carrying the dandelion seeds into the night..... it would be difficult to create that feel with a regular camera.... the reason it has that unordered look is because I did not try to place the seeds in any particular way, but instead threw them on the glass, over and over, until I got the desired effect....... if I had placed them, you would be able to tell because only nature can truly be totally random .....
Another one in my Dandelion Dreams series......yes, it is a scan and not a capture from a camera...... I tried to create the illusion of the wind carrying the dandelion seeds into the night..... it would be difficult to create that feel with a regular camera.... the reason it has that unordered look is because I did not try to place the seeds in any particular way, but instead threw them on the glass, over and over, until I got the desired effect....... if I had placed them, you would be able to tell because only nature can truly be totally random .....
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dandelions,
dreamlike,
dreamy,
fantasy,
scan,
scan art,
scanography,
soft,
windy
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