Digital Paintings Two

To my surprise, the previous experiments had lead me in a more abstract direction than I had gone in before. My mood was to put little effort into the selection of a model and less into the depiction of minutiae. I wanted to get on with it, I guess. So, I simply "made up" the model, or took something from one of my photos.


	Is this different or what? But curiously, it felt right to make it after the previous two. Here I was looking for the real in the abstraction. Having made the basic color and shape abstraction in a simple paint program, I worked on the depth and particularly on the texture.


	Here the imaginary shapes are complexly formed and the colors are subservient to the whole effect.


	Here the "liquid" series has become ceramic. I knew I would do more paintings using this approach.


	This digital painting felt, on completion, to be right on the path I wanted to be. And it also felt like a new door to all kinds of possibilities.


	Working with the ceramic effect in an imaginary scene, I tried for a free-form mosaic.


	In the mood for depiction, I found a a fritillary photo on the Web, carefully made a drawing, scanned it, modified it a lot, created as much depth as I could and have it still work.


	Wanting experience in directly modifying a photo, I used one of mine taken of a Blue Heeler.


	Another experiment in shape, color, and depth -- again "real" abstraction.


	Based on my photo of a tulip, this is an investigation in creating a mosaic of apparently rounded and polished stones.


	Possibly evidence of a psychic breakdown according to my mate, but really, I was quite calm. My main interest was in creating two distinct levels within the work.

	* END OF DIGITAL PAINTINGS TWO *