In the Eyes

Today I again played with another detail from one of my paintings. I overlaid the acrylic on canvas image with watercolor on paper textures. I love that I can readily create layers on the computer that I could never do in real 3D space.

In the garden she is Queen

Someone whose opinion I highly respect told me once that my paintings were far to complex and overwhelming, that they contain too much information for most people to be able to comfortably absorb. Instead, I should simplify by creating a whole piece out of one detail of what would normally just be texture in my regular pieces. I started this image with one such isolated detail from a much larger painting. I couldn’t help myself though. It seemed to simplistic, so I added a few layers.

Big Mother’s Day

I’ve posted a simpler version of this photograph somewhere online (facebook?) before a few years back, yet I felt it was appropriate to re-work it here for Earth Day. I started this portrait by painting my own face with brilliant face paints. That didn’t work really well, but I went with it anyway, and photographed myself in all of the stages of putting on the makeup and taking it off. It ws quite a session. Next, I had a lot of painting work to do in Photoshop to make it really work as a cohesive image, and add things like clouds. Today, I layered with textures and added the heartfelt words. It is a good day to honor the planet that sustains us.

It’s been years…

I babysat Bebe while I was going to college, way way back when. She’s middle aged now, and yet my only knowledge of her is of  this delightful baby who loved to get into things. I would spend lots of time fixing her hair, and dolling her up.
In Photoshop, you can overlay a pencil or ink drawing, and not have to deal with trying to do some kind of “clean”  removal of white, by simply applying the multiply button. It’s handy for incorporating one image into another.

Art-cycled E-mages

This started out with a simple pencil drawing I did in 1970. I’m thinking Art-cycling is good for my mental environment, and that E-mages could be a smart way to go.  It’s a far cry better than painting on used paper towels or some such lost effort. It’s late. I’m feeling silly, and I just can’t think of much more to say.