I’ve been rather quiet at this site for the past few weeks. I’ve been preparing for a jury trial, which take an immense amount of time. But I’ve also been working on art.
For the past two years, I have been exploring ways to create digital art that begins with wet-paint acrylic paintings before moving into Photoshop. I work on these images almost every day and it is a joy. This effort is still a work in progress. For one thing, it’s difficult to make the paint behave, which results in many more failures than successes. That said, disinterested third parties have repeatedly told me that they enjoy looking at these images. I decided to see how far I can take this. Last month I applied for the trademark, “Digicrylics” and applied for copyright protection for my images. Today I’m announcing a new website to showcase my art work, Digicrylics. I invite you to take a look at the two online galleries (here and here). In the About Page I describe the process that I am still developing to create this art. Enjoy!
The images in your galleries are very cool. Many have an organic look, while others seem to inhabit the threshold between the mineral and the biological realms. The use of both saturated and desaturated color is beautiful. Plus the areas of sharper focus against unfocused areas give a sense of layering. To me this seems like fully developed work from an artist with a unique voice. Well done.
I have few visual skills. I enjoy looking at the art and trying to tease out the original image, though. The work is similar to another, more famous artist’s, in the same way that Monet’s is similar to my eldest’s kindergarten pictures we put on the refrigerator. In this case, you’re Monet, and Hunter is the kindergartener. He’s charging half a million; yours should be priced at the GDP of a small country.