I know that I improvise using this bird on a rail a lot. I relate to this bird looking out into the horizon. I want to know what he or she thinks about or dreams of flying off to do. This is multi-layer digital collage combining several images in unusual ways.
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This is the same series as the last two posts. I used the same images I used in the first two but layered them in different ways, and then put a bird on it just for fun.
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Because I use so many images layered multiple times with different layering effects, the number of potential choices I could make at times seems infinite. Often it boils down to what mood I'm in. Do I want to see something almost realistic? Something more abstract expressionist like this one? Or something in between? This piece uses the same images as the last one I posted on this blog. But in this one I was attracted to the almost chaotic but quite deliberate effects that occur when the same images are used multiple times. Deliberate in terms of making specific choices based on hunches and wanting to shift what doesn't work for me, but also with the desire to be surprised and delighted. And that's when I call it "good."
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I probably did 20 versions of this idea tonight, some so surreal you wouldn't recognize them as starting with the same floral subject matter. I might work up a few of those as final pieces as well. It's multiple layer photography with multiple images and patterns combined, some images used multiple times with different layer effects in Photoshop. It got crazy in my laptop art studio tonight!
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I'm having fun combining some of my old photos with new elements. And for some reason I want everything bright and saturated these days. That's probably been mostly true forever but especially now. I broke out of my foreboding raven stage and decided to use all the colors in my crayon box!
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I've had a half-finished painting of this guitar on my easel for two years and another half-finished one in a different style on my table. I hit a point when I couldn't finish them because I didn't like something that I couldn't figure out how to fix. And then I became frustrated because they just looked too boring to bother fixing! But I had worked so long on these that I wouldn't give myself permission to move on to something else before I finished one.
Well, THAT was a mistake! Talk about putting a spoke in the wheel of creativity! I finally decided to play with it in Photoshop and it's not boring anymore! And I'm done. I won't be painting it so my studio is finally free again. Whew!!!
I call this "Wipe Out" because that song got stuck in my head as I was working on it. In fact, I added an ocean wave because of that in the very area that didn't work for me before. I'm good with it now. Thanks for looking!
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This is a digital painting derived from layered photographs and a variety of layering effects. I'm pretty sure that the photographs I used were taken, for the most part, at Upper Park in Chico, California.
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Another "Raven Interlude." I'm enjoying finding out what I can do with wallpaper samples and other decorative and hand-painted papers I recently scanned into my computer. This would probably be called a digital collage. It's made with multiple layers and multiple layering effects.
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The "Raven Interludes" continue. This series is allowing me to explore new ways to combine digital with painting-like effects. I recently scanned a large collection of handpainted paper, wallpaper, and other decorative papers of all sorts that I have been collecting for 20-30 years. I used to use them in cut-paper quilts but now I'd like to collage them into paintings, at least digitally. This is one of my first forays into this kind of work. It's fun for me to see the handpaints in the bird's feathers and in the fence rail. The background combines multiple photographs with digital painting effects.
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I call this one "Dreaming of the Bower on a Cold Rainy Night." It is a digital collage with some of the images transformed into digital paintings and others layered with multiple effects in Photoshop. It's been fun going through my stash of bird photos I haven't known what to do with. I'm enjoying this new series very much.
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