I want to encourage people to really look closely at the colours, shapes, light, around them and to see the patterns in nature and other forms.
Although there are a few old acrylics and drawings here, most of this blog is made from my photos. I make my digital art in several different ways, but the basic method is simple: I look around me, I notice something interesting, ( even rust, mold, a leaf, yogurt, a spill! ). I take a photograph of it. I play with the photo . . . and something else “arrives”!
This way of working appeals to me because it involves three things: the offerings of the world, chance, and whatever I make out of it. ( As we all do in our lives every day : just what we do with what we are given!)
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- Seasons Greetings 2023 One Tree – Many Branches
Wishing you peace and joy as we celebrate our winter holidays at the time of the turning of the light!
A card for everybody, but especially in gratitude for all the doctors, nurses, social workers,volunteers, dieticians, dentists and all the people who work with such dedication in hospitals and medical offices during this very stressful time
One Tree: Many Branches Card - Tangled Garden : Robin
From The Tangled Garden Series : Robin I made The Tangled Garden Series as a reminder of the black and white illustrations in the children’s and botanical books of my childhood, and in some Japanese prints.
Apart from the fact that I love plants and many animals, what especially interests me is their patterns, which are brought out better in black and white, patterns such as the Branching Pattern of leaf veins and branching of tree-branches
These are not straight B/W photos, but were originally coloured ones, which I have worked on “by hand” so to speak, not just using pre-made filters, to produce the effect which I wanted. Time-consuming!
You can see more about this by clicking Art Methods here or in the top heading and scroll down to the robin , near the end.
- Mandala of Chaos Crossing Order
Mandala of Chaos crossing Order
The “Mandala” of Chaos and Order was made long before we felt the chaotic global effects of whatever caused the Covid 19 pandemic to start.
The apparent wave of “chaos”crossing my symbol for order here (from a clay clock-face which I made in my pottery days) arose out of yet another combination of chance, real liquids and solids and finally, digital art.
The order of the universe itself, plus the order which we believe we see in it, plus chaos, chance, complexity, uncertainty, the interconnection of all things . . what we do with all that : c’est la vie!
