Bird Abstract Botanical

 

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.

Prints and prints on various surfaces are available on Fine Art America.

California Landscape

 

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.

Prints and prints on canvas and other surfaces are available at Fine Art America.

Time and Place — Foxtail Edition, Multi-layered Digital Photography

I am exploring the multiple dimensions of reality by layering multiple photographs showing different elements of the same scene all at once. There is more going on in a single moment  than a simple snapshot can capture. But we record these impressions on a conscious or unconscious level whether we know it or not. This scene is created from photographs I took at ground level. The color shift is to make you look at something most people walk by without seeing: foxtails and native grasses.

This piece is available on Fine Art America.

Mid-Summer Botanical Abstract

 

I'm exploring a theme in my work that has headed into strange territory lately. I've been breaking the "rule" of simplifying my work and instead add more complexity. I would say that my subject matter is complexity—the multiplicity of life experience and the complexity inherent in the natural world. Nothing exists separately from anything else. Everything in the natural world lives in relationship. And we don't experience the world like a camera that freezes whatever we point it at and leaves out the rest. We take in multiple impressions at a single time, especially as we move through an environment, sometimes combined with the thoughts in our head which may be focussed on something entirely different than what is actually there. 

I add multiple images together—sometimes different angles of the same scene, sometimes unrelated images that I imagine might belong together. Sometimes it works, sometimes it doesn't. I reject more ideas than not. It's an experience of discovery—trying unusual things I was certainly never taught to do in three different photo-editing programs and seeing what develops. That's what I like about the process—I wind up seeing things in my work I didn't know where there before. Or the process itself creates something new I would not have expected. It adds an element of surprise and wonder that was otherwise absent, for me, in most of the art I have tended to do before.

In this piece I'm using multiple layered photographs of flowers and other garden plants (all my original work) with multiple digital effects to create an abstract landscape. Prints, framed prints, and prints on canvas, metal, acrylic, etc. are available.

The Mysterious Meadow Forest

 

Imagine that you're walking in a deep dark forest. Now imagine that you are a mouse and the forest is actually a meadow of plants. That's what this is. It's made of multiple layered photos, combined with multiple effects. Prints, framed prints, prints on canvas, metal, acrylic, etc. are available.

Pastel Meadow Abstract

 

This very experimental piece is composed of 3-4 original photos of the same open meadow that used to exist across the street from where I live. It's all filled in with houses now but the photos still exist. In this piece I was trying to show both the movement of the plants in the wind and the details of the plants when the wind momentarily stops. Prints, framed prints, and prints on canvas, metal, acrylic, etc. are available.

The Battle Between Grass and Fence Crystalized

 

Perfect for this hot not-even-summer day. Same series, same photos, composed in a different way. Prints, framed prints, and prints on canvas, metal, acrylic, etc. 

The Battle Between Grass and Fence

 

The battle continues! This is an ongoing theme I think because, ultimately, grass always wins. This is multi-image digital art made from three of my original photos. Prints, framed prints, and prints on canvas, metal, acrylic and other products are available.