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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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'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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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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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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"Raven Greets the Day." This is a digital collage with pieces layered with multiple effects in Photoshop. I'm combining images altered to be digital paintings with maps and unaltered photographs including the trees outside my bedroom window. I'm not sure whether that's the moon behind the raven or the sun coming up in an overcast sky. Dark and mysterious for October. Prints and prints on canvas, metal, wood and other materials are available on Fine Art America.