Another two short chapters … This image has been made over from something completely different that I have used before … you may even recognize it. The ability to change an image utterly with just a few slide buttons, is a thing I love about the possibilities of even very simple software such as Preview.
The Well …
The Book of Life and its characters escaping … seemed like an appropriate companion to Tardi’s trials in the the next chapter …
This is a screenshot of a Adobe’ed artwork by an artist I don’t know. PS, a friend, did the Adobe-ing. It’s so easy these days to lose sight of the original artist. We might as well accept that once our work hits the online world, it’s out of our hands, it’s no use crying. Or conversely, our attitude can be that we’ve launched our art to do its work in the world.
Borrowed this from a previous project for its fit. A dream landscape. I love how a photo can be totally transformed … this was once a drinking glass containing some kind of bubbly. Now it represents Joe Loreno’s idea for how his trees are going to look.
Reflections … One of my early watercolor paintings, when I was not yet conscious of the differences between acrylics–where paint is dabbed into the scene with many little brush strokes –and the minimal swirling brushstrokes of loose watercolor. Plus, there was a plastic wrap experiment. Altogether a busy little scene.
The only time in my life that I’ve ever risked looking directly at the sun was in 2019 when bush-fire smoke made that possible. Here the sun setting behind Chincogan or more popularly known as ‘Chinnie’. A little relationship to the story so far.
