Happy Holidays

Hope all have an awesome holiday season!! Thanks for your support and comments given about the artwork and keep 'em coming!!

New Work

Peacock Coat


another piece that started directly with Photoshop. No sketch to scan in for this one. Actually, I had forgotten about this piece because of work (day job and Sam's World). It was pretty much done, but I wanted to set it "aside" for a few days and have a look at it again with "fresh eyes". A few days turned into a few weeks, but it is finished and I am pleased with the result!


enjoy!

Winter Morning Walk (cont)

Winter Fragile


December 2011

Morning Walk (cont)

Morning Moon


December 2011

Winter Walk (cont)

Early Morning Frost


taken by the same pond as the bench, but down the path a bit further. One can see the frozen pond in this picture.


December 2011

Winter Walk

Snow Bench


taken on a walk by one of the storm drain ponds in our neighbourhood.


December 2011

YRA T-Shirt Template

I have thought about getting some t-shirts made. Would anyone be interested in one?

Random, new maybe old

Lamp Mischief


I cannot remember if this has been posted before. I'm too lazy to back through the archives. But I do like this piece because it started out as an abstract sketch that took a life of its own and became a female figure. (a rather "genie in a bottle" concept)

Digital Abstract

Rim

New Digital Abstract

Eyes of the Lions

more from Nature

"I'm Watching You, Carefully"


from the Calgary Zoo

Wolf Sunning

taken at the Calgary Zoo. I love these animals. I could sit the entire day and watch these beautiful and intelligent animals. We could learn a few things from them!

More Nature

Green Cups 2 (close-up)


Botanical Gardens in Atlanta, Ga.

Nature

Green Cups 1


taken at the Botanical Gardens in Atlanta, Ga.

Digital Abstract

Chickens, Ducks, Dolls, and Skulls


this one probably needs a explanation for the title. Quite simple really! The four objects that make up the title are what I see in the artwork. Other than that, just chalk it up as another weird one from the mind of the artist!

Bloody Thorns

(Photoshop CS3)

From the Neighbourhood 02

the lake gull

Pictures from the Neighbourhood 01

McKenzie Town Pond
October 2011


this is actually a "flood drainage" pond that one of the bike/pedestrian paths goes around. The pond is home to ducks, geese (only a stop over), gulls, and a few muskrats.  This pond will ice over deep enough so one can walk from one side to the other. 


There are houses all along the perimeter, but I have "removed" the houses from this image. 


I like it better without the houses.

Clarity of Purpose

A completetly unintentional image that came about while working on another sketch.

Glorious in Battle

Clash

done from start to finish: Photoshop CS3

Out by the Shed 2

Barnesville, Georgia
September 2011

Watching the Sand Flies

Tybee Island, Georgia
September 2011

"This camera guy, he just keeps following me"

Tybee Island, Georgia
September 2011

On the Beach

Tybee Island
(looking out at the Atlantic Ocean)

September 2011

Lounging Beauty

Another rare shot, this time from the pond within a half hour walk of the house. It looks "posed" but a steady hand on a zoom shot gave me a good opportunity to catch Janice in a relaxed position.

Volcano Seas

Digital painting
Photoshop CS3

Heat Stirs

digital abstract
Photoshop CS3

One Watches, One Screams

more abstract work. completely digital from beginning to end using Photoshop CS3

Port Below

recent abstract work. I went on a run and produced several images from one sketch done through photoshop CS3. I'll be posting the artwork over the next several days.

Kinda Fishy 3, 4, 5

 three more cartoon fish

Supreme

have not done a mask in a while. this one took several days to get done. Could not get the "top" of the mask to work for me. After several re-works, it is completed.

New Digital Abstract 2

It Just Keeps Unfolding


done entirely with Photoshop CS3.

New Digital Abstract Work

Finding Personal


this piece done completely with Photoshop CS3

Summer Vacation 4

Small Feet on the Beach


Tybee Island, Georgia
September 2011

Summer Vacation 3

Out By The Shed


Out in the woods by my brother's house
(Barnewsville, Ga)

Summer Vacation 2

High and Dry

well, if it does flood, there is transportation ready
(Barnesville, Georgia)

September Vacation

a very "rare" picture of my sweetie!  This pic was taken at the beach on Tybee Island, Georgia. I worked some colour effects into the pic. This would have to be my favourite picture of her thus far.

Last of the Old stuff (for now)

Candy Store


The title comes specifically from the colours used in this piece. The colours reminded me of the candy that were in bins at the candy stores that were around in my youth. One could buy candy by the pound or piece. Row upon row of these bins would sit side by side and one could taste the colour and need shades to handle the brightness!

Early Favs pt 7

Ghost Fragments


background is a indigo/potassium hand-dyed (with gloves on) cotton piece. This particular background image was a small section of the piece. Basically using the entire scanning surface of the scanner. The mask imagery is from a drawing and then using "effects" to achieve the appearance you now see.


I will be taking some time off on both blogs (this one and Sam's World) for vacation and to get some personal artwork done. See ya toward the end of September!

Early Favs pt 6

Glance


early mask imagery and re-working various elements of the mask

Early Favs pt 5

Impression


an early hand-dyed, wax resist cotton piece, re-worked digitally. I added the mask image during the digital component of the process.

Early Favs pt 4

one of those abstract sketches that took a life of its own. No "plan" for this drawing, just turned out as you see it. I really love these drawings because there are no expectations of what the finished drawing needs to look like. 

Early Favs pt 3

Bolero


another textile piece re-worked digitally

Early Favs pt 2

Ishmael, Thunderbird, and Ares
this was one of my first pieces that I used traditional work and re-worked the piece digitally. The original piece was a hand-dyed indigo and potassium piece I did as a school project. Using Photoshop to manipulate the piece, I came up with three images:


top:        Ishmael          ( I had recently read Daniel Quinn's "Ishmael", main character was a gorilla)
middle:  the Thunderbird
bottom  Ares, God of War

Early Favs pt 1

Into the Maw


the next few posts will be of some earlier work. Alot of the work you will see was produced back in the first several years of new century. My first foray into producing work digitally and re-working some traditional work digitally. This would be my "beginning" point with using the computer as a tool for my artistic expressions.
So sit back and join me in a visit down memory lane!

Battle Man

another image that started out as an abstract ink drawing, but took a life of its own.