This is the first in a series of explorations into The Lost City theme. Symbolic representations of my own life. Collage of various extractions from my photos and worked in Photoshop.
Theme and variation. I played around with this in Picassa 2. Halleleujah Well I’ve heard there was a secret chord / that David played and it pleased the Lord / but you don’t really care for music do ya? / It goes like this – the fourth, the fifth / the minor fall, the major lift / the baffled king composing halleleujah Leonard Cohen
Digital collage from photographs
Digital photo composite
Digital collage
This is obviously not an original idea, and I want to thank both ECGardner and Angelique Brunas for their works along these lines that motivated me to explore my own creativity. I hope they do not mind my using their work as a basis for my inspiration, and I am still working to achieve the balance, beauty, and artistry they have exhibited through their respective nature based collages! I will give folks a while to guess what the various panes are comprised of, they should be pretty easy to figure out, later I will insert the proper descriptions of their contents. As always I can not say often enough how wonderful the Redbubble community is and how happy I am to have found it during it’s infancy so that I may grow along with it into a more complete and accomplished artist! / / / / Portfolio Areas / / Tigers / Wildlife / Macro / Landscape / Birds / Abstracts / Cats~wild and domestic
Collaged painting with Apophysis overlays
Multilayered Apophysis images
Collage and Apophysis images
Collage with Apophysis layers
Collage with Apophysis overlays
Collage, photo and Apophysis layers
Collage and Apophysis layers
Photo, collage and Apopohysis layers
Collage, scanned peacock feathers and Apophysis overlays
Collage, scanned peacock feathers and apophysis overlays Only love has power over lovers. Death has none. / The beloved is giving as he appears to take away. / Breath diminishes as spirit flows stronger, / a falcon released to the wild. Rumi
Work exhibited in the Visual Arts Association Group Exhibition ‘Four Seasons’, held Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld. / The exhibition theme was inspired by the Vivaldi’s music ‘The Four Seasons’. Mixed media – archival black ink, acrylic, collage – paper painted, mono & screen-printed, drawing, photo; screen-printed cotton fabric, carpet material; on canvas. Background: I had been working individually on art compositions relative to my passion to interpret music, rhythm, movement and energy through the use of formal visual art elements ie. line, colour, tone, shape, texture and art media. The interpretation of any music requires one’s senses to hear and feel, absorb sound and energies, to internalize and contemplate, as apposed to recording information seen/perceived through the eyes from the physical ‘outer’ world. One has to create and interpret a visionary abstract, from a pure transitional and spiritual sensual state, from one’s own internal environment, the knowledge, understanding and experience one brings to canvas for the moments of manifestation. I jumped at the chance when this exhibition theme came up. Also I am much inspired by Kandinsky and his work, a long time favourite art philosopher and mentor. ....................................... /
Mixed mediums: Acrylic, rice paper, linen thread, pigment powder on canvas. / Size: 613×917 x 42 mm; Framed size: 970×665 x 50 mm Concept: Practically stitches bind, attach, and connect materials and/or surfaces together and is a metaphor for human bonding. The stitch becomes the ‘thread’, linking and connecting to the human psyche. Using a needle and thread by hand to stitch is a slow, methodical and sometimes painful process, of pushing and pulling through materials. The process reveals the two sides (dual nature) and the in-between to this affair. / / Abstractly worked, the stitch is used metaphorically for relaying energies and relationship formations. / Spirit Matter Cosmos abstractly references and resonates concepts of duality, the conscious and unconscious, complexity and simplicity, the spirit and alchemy of ‘relationships’ (blood & gold symbolism), transitory formations (the faded) illusions to connections and perceived realities. Always within, is the ‘spirit’, the centre, a voice of wisdom that guides and directs us in and through and beyond the ‘matter’. From the Exhibition/s: Sense of Attachment & Elevating the Spirit Exhibition at Cairns Regional Gallery, Qld (& toured Townsville April 24- May 31, 2009) ABC ARTPOST slide shows here ................................................................................ / FEATURED IN ABSTRACT ART DIMENSIONS
Sold to a mystery buyer in a large framed print / THANK YOU!
Detail of my altered art weaving, using cut strips of collage pieces and twigs as weft, and various fibers as warp, with embellishments.
Digital abstract realism inspired by the deer of Hagerman Wildlife Refuge near my home in Texas. This art work has been FEATURED in the group, “Deer Me”. :)
I also experimented with this image in photoshop. I cut, cropped and merged two flowers from two different pictures together. I dusted them lightly with clouds (photoshop brushes) of different colors, basic brushes, special effect brushes and sharpened the image (filter gallery). I also altered the color (filter forge) and detail. Then I added swirls and leaves (more photoshop brushes) and added some style to it. I love the way this came out!!
Medium: Acrylic, linen & cotton threads, banana fibre on canvas. / Size: 470×762 x 18 mm / Work exhibited in Elevating the Spirit at Cairns Regional Gallery and Sugarama Gallery, Mourilyan, Far North Queensland, Australia. SYMBOLISM / Meditative mantra for strength, balance, stillness, aligning positive energies, reflections; blessings ‘I’ – representing spirit’s presence, rhythm, strength, continuity. Acknowledgement of earthly and spiritual dual realm/existence (colours: red/passion/vibrant external; blue/inner nurturance, higher source; gold/life force). FEATURED in ALTERED ART / (3 Aug.09) / and ABSTRACT ART PLUS in / THE ART OF INTRIGUE (6.08.09) _
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