Tonight's Creation.

Abstract 101111

New Works!!!

Ophidian

Static Vision

From the original photograph- 

A Very Old Cloud on Cate St.

Words...

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A little something from last week...

Something like the Weather

 

created from... 

Eye Contact

A Butterfly Deconstructed: A Butterfly Reborn

Started with....

my dog <3

Added the negative image blended on a diagonal...

Creating...

Then...

Creating...

This is where it gets a little bit complicated.

New Killer Blog Coming Soon!!!

I've been working for days on a new posting that goes even further in depth on how I created some of my previous pieces.  I'm hoping to publish it tomorrow.  I have to admit I've given into the distraction of new works- trying to recreate what I did in the past is inspiring many new creations! :) Stay tuned.

Trees Ablaze: A Tree Within a Tree

 Season's Blaze: 'Abstract' with Creepy Tree III

     I created this piece during the same period that I created the bulk of the 'Creepy Tree series'.  But I forgot about it after I hit 'save'.  I came across it last night, and I think it's particularly fitting considering the new season.  The core pieces of this series are the three abstractions.  These three pieces have a very seasonal feeling to me, though I was unaware that I was moving in this direction when creating the pieces.  

     The first abstraction (Abstract with Creepy Tree: Ghost Story) is blue and cold like the starkest winter.  When I originally created the piece I felt the cold, barren, emptiness of the piece like that of a graveyard, a haunting.  Now I see that, and the haunting cold of winter, the eerie way sound travels or fails to travel in the cold and ice are all imbued with the original quality I saw.  Winter can be very eerie, and stark, bare, exposed, piercing, and haunting.  

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Awesome New Tee!

Newest edition to the "Creepy Tree series'- the Creepy Tree Tee!

Creepy Tree Tee

I adore this design.  I haven't worked 'intentionally' in a while.  But this image stuck in my head.  To me it has a feeling of being both a little creepy and 'goth' and being kind of wispy and 'Asian'.

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More from the Creepy Tree

The newest abstraction from the 'Creepy Tree' series! Enjoy!

The fiery warmth of season's change 

overtakes winter's ghostly branches...

Season's Change: Abstract with Creepy Tree II

Other pieces from this series-

Abstract with Creepy Tree: Ghost Story

Sunbreak Behind a Creepy Tree

Newest Abstraction!

Another neat-o abstraction!

Stamp Act: Abstraction with Texture

I adore the textures of this piece. And the strong geometry is very appealing.

This piece is an abstraction of Pink Sunset in the Trees II. The frame is actually created by dual tree trunks.  The textured appearance of the red areas are leaves.  And obviously the linear patters in the central panel are tree limbs.

Pink Sunset in the Trees II

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A Lonely Spectral Tree

The original image- 

it started off a lil blurry. But this lonely little tree just always spoke to me...

I knew I wanted to to do something with this... 

so I started fooling around.

You can still see the bottom of the tree trunk.. 

four times and the tree top twice.  Look closely.

I use many methods in creating these pieces-

often times I change the orientation and dimensions of the piece repeatedly throughout the development.  I use a similar method when painting- I rotate the canvas repeatedly and don't definite a bottom/top until the very end.

The 'spectral anomaly' begins to appear...

(I have to other term to describe what this little dot turns into- and I was raised on StarTrek- thus it became a 'spectral anomaly')...

Another dimensional shift...

and technicolor clouds moving in from all directions.  It's easier to repeat things and achieve symmetrical changes using a square format, regardless if it intend to end with a rectangular or square outcome.

Workin' the dot...

and other subtle changes.

The anomaly... 

erupting.  The orange-ish hue is actually a shade of the negative hue to the original blue.

Finally-

Spectral Enigma …


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The Threshold of Change

Threshold

   The wind was changing, I knew as I stepped out.  

A well tred path that carried me through my days.  

Seeing only the images in my mind before me, 

I passed blind through the life that surrounded me.  

And then the wind changed, and I looked up.  

The wind changed, and I woke up.  

Looking about me, as for the first time, 

breathing deep like my first breaths. 

I noticed something, and I drew nearer.  

'What thing is this?' I wondered, cautiously moving in.  

It was nothing, but I must look closer.  

I must see what thing it is that draws me.  

Passing off the path, twigs and roots under foot 

crackling softly, almost dreamily, 

like a muted echo in a vast room- 

a ghost of a sound.  

Spindly fingers of branches against my flesh, 

I feel with no sensation. 

As I passed through the drifting mists, 

wrapped around me like many veils, 

I feel a change. 

Moving forward in a dream, 

unable to pause.with feet unmoving, 

I knew I had entered some place unlike my own, 

a world apart from mine 

from which I would never return. 

A journey unknown begun through passage, 

drifting through my mind.

                
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A Pair of New Pieces!

Two pieces- One Tree:  The first an eerie yet comforting, almost nostalgic photograph.  The second a spooky abstract of drifting mists and haunting moments..

Sunbreak Behind a Creepy Tree

This image was captured from a moving car, using a lens from a pair of broken sunglasses as a filter.  The image is very raw, as reflected by the bit of reflection at the bottom.  But I really like the juxtaposition of the blur and shine of this 'mistake' against the delicate intricacy of the 'creepy tree' branches.  The reflection balances the light of the sun and in balance with the dark negative areas around the bottom edges helps to weigh the image down, to ground it, as it were.  I find this image eerie but not unnatural, almost comforting.

And-

Abstract with Creepy Tree: Ghost Story

This piece reminds me of a ghost story- a lonely girl under a singular tree, mists rising, and darkness creeping in.  The lines (originally powerlines) are entrapping, restricting, unyielding- the finality of the end of the story, the record, the unavoidable, the rose on the grave, or the abandoned sweater on the passenger seat- the proof that she really happened, this wasn't a dream.