the artist's statement

"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 modern art. Show all posts
Showing posts with label modern art. Show all posts

Tuesday, November 8, 2011

dandelion wind 2

another in my dandelion dreams series.... a fast shaking of the camera at slow speed and a fast F stop of some dandelion seed pods, with some post processing using Topaz filters, produced what you see here...... the method I used gives it a windy kind of feel I think .....

Saturday, December 11, 2010

abstract yellow woods


one from my abstract series ..... it started out as a window reflection of the autumn woods, surrounding our cabin in the mountains of western North Carolina ..... funked it up, using various Topaz filters.........

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

blue waters abstract 1

This is a custom art piece that I did a few months ago.  It started out as a camera capture of a small stream in the Helen and Allen Cruickshank sanctuary in Rockledge Florida.  Just some weeds in a creek.  I played around with it in Photoshop using various TOPAZ plugins.  After a number of tries, I got a rather interesting abstract piece that I worked on for a while and then put it aside.  Then one day I showed it to someone and I started to try different crops and I changed it from a horizontal to a vertical piece... VOILA, he said he had just the place for it in his home.... and he now has it hanging up in his bedroom ...