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.

Her Attitude

A reflection of her attitude, her neck was bent in a odd and disturbing way.  It appealed to the baser senses.

Dancing Trees

From our walk the other day, when I discovered a grove of birch right next to the underpass to the freeway. It was a tiny forest surrounded by asphalt. If the faeries were hiding out there, they had a very small roaming space in this reality. It had that kind of magical feel though, as if it were actually a doorway into some other place. I wanted to speak of the incongruence in the image, so I layered the mini-forest with the texture of the close up of the asphalt.