Taking some of my #art with #darker #lighting and throwing #filters on them to brighten them up a bit. #digital #artwork
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The Cage
My first #artwork in a minute. I’m #rendering another angle now that I think might be better. Instead of explaining what I was getting at with this #painting what do you think I was expressing? #art #digital #woman #midcenturymodern #digitalpainting
The Cage – another angle. I think I like this better.
The Resurrection of Self-Doubt
The body lay buried for many years, sunk in a swamp of tears and anxiety. She didn’t know why she left the warmth and safety of her present to find the remains of the buried past, yet here she was. As she crouched down in the damp sadness of the woods and nervously reached out to the fetid water, she saw the glow of wicked familiarity intensify as the past reached out for her as well.
Idle Hands (Part 2)
Idle Hands – Part 2. This was the figure in the background from part 1 yesterday. As I was zooming around the science fixing this and that, I was particularly intrigued and satisfied with this #portrait of #madness #evil and #possession by unholy forces. These forces were called up after a bored girl goes rooting around in the basement and finds an old book of #magic in a trunk. Part 1 gives the ultimate result in this case. Stay in school, don’t mis-pronounce things, kids. #art #artwork #horror #digitalart
Idle Hands (Part 1)
Idle Hands, part one of two. I watch a lot of #crime / #murder documentaries, as well as #horror movies… don’t worry, I’m perfectly normal. This #digital #artwork started as a scene I saw in this show about the Blackout Ripper in London during WW2, but I later watched a bad horror movie about a mother and daughters relationship. A + B = #art – so, why the title? Lots of kids have lots of time on their hands during this pandemic, so it’s probably a good idea to watch them lest they get into an old trunk in the basement. Part 2 follows tomorrow, focusing on the figure in the background. #digitalart #dark #summoning #ritual #magic
Silent Agony
Men generally take the majority of credit for an #abusiverelationship but there is a silent group of men who are #survivors of not necessarily physical, but rather #mentally and #emotionally #abusive #relationships – this #artwork is a representation of what it’s like for these men. So, assuming you’re over the bad boy phase, if you meet a nice guy who is super-skittish about being involved with you, odds are it was because he’s met a master of these #manipulation skills in the past. Patience, determination, and love can overcome though. #digitalart #digital #art #psychology
The Future
Concept #art I created yesterday. Beware of #demons offering a look into the #future and all that rot. The new thing for me was getting a #rainbow to appear exactly where I wanted it. I did it by creating a primitive of clear glass, then placing a multicolor fx injector inside of it. Art is about making use of the tools you have 🙂 #barren #apocalyptic #fallenangel #whatsyourangle #digitalart #digitalartist #new
The Calm Before the Heresy
“The Calm Before the Heresy.” 18×24 #acrylic #painting on #canvas. $300 if interested, which is, mmm, $0.70 per square inch, plus $20 shipping CONUS. That’s a great deal. Prices are sure to shoot up the moment I’m discovered 🙂
I had the idea a couple weeks back, but it really wanted out of my head today. It’s part of my ramp up to #Halloween, the season of #magic – where the boundaries between our world and the #supernatural are at their weakest.
The setting is #Colonial #America, or Europe, suit yourself (as Marty Feldman used to say). A man, walking through the woods, comes upon a scene of #occult #witchcraft, or worship as the old religions call it. You get the rest, burnings, hangings, people succumbing to their basest instincts.
The Watcher
My favorite time of the year is here, Fall/Halloween. I’ve geared up the darker art to celebrate. This one I call “the Watcher”. I love gargoyles, so I painted one. The bushes are a combination of fantasy and berries I encounter on my daily walks.
Techniques used include spray paint, acrylic paint, brushwork, finger-painting, and the use of these styrofoam balls one can find in a craft store.
I wanted to do rain, but you can’t have a full moon in view with rain falling, apparently. I wanted to keep that accuracy.
Parity Lost
“Everyone knew the war would one day end. It had raged for eons since Lucifer decided he would rather own his house than pay rent. The sides of light and darkness had fought themselves to a standstill. “If only God’s pets could see the ethereal ruin that lay in between their Starbucks and obsession with the Kardashians,” most angels mused to themselves as the conflict went on.
What no one expected, was for the war to end today. No one foresaw that the strongest of the Angels would exercise her free will, just as Lucifer had at the beginning of time. She had grown weary of the routine, the constant pressure of vigilance, of maintaining the balance, and had decided to do something about it. She would become what God loved most – human.
As her wings relented under the blade, tremors shook the ethereal, summoning Lucifer to her side. He loved her, this angel, his greatest threat. He had held her in greater esteem than those braggarts Michael and Gabriel. She, who had fought him to an aeons-long standstill, had earned his respect, and worse, corrupted the purity of his hate with love, however selfish.
She had chosen to become mortal, a contemptible, imperfect, creature that had what all angels desired. Now, the balance had shifted. He had loathed the favorites of God, he had achieved self-actualization through his torment of them – and now she was one of them! Could he go on destroying them? His heart sank at the only conclusion he could reach. The war was over.”
Aurora
Like most of my paintings, this one started off in another direction. I tend to go where my artistic Muse takes me, so planning is the first thing out the window.
I started playing around on the canvas and eventually ended up with this. The scene in the painting is ostensibly a forest under the night sky, in abstract form, of course. I named it ‘Aurora’ because it reminded me of a bucket list item, seeing the Aurora Borealis.
A variety of techniques went into the creation of the artwork. I assume they have proper names in the art world, but I used a combination of wet canvas / color bleed, spatter (as the result of playing air-drummer while my favorite music was on), and using black gesso to fill in the branches.
Overall, I’m going with a win for the rescue of the painting. 18×24, acrylic on canvas, April 30, 2017.
Night Light
Night Light is the first attempt to create the scene I was envisioning as a painting. I realized too late, that I had made the street lamp too big relative to what I wanted to happen around it. I would have needed a canvas three times the size to keep the perspective of what is in my head. I therefore made the reluctant decision to leave it as is and start another canvas using the street light theme.
In the meantime, I hope you like the results of this one, as it has a few quirks to it. Also, I hope you stick around for what will be the ultimate realization of the vision I have for the scene.
The scene here is reminiscent of what I see when I go for my evening walks. I’m infatuated with light, and any unusual display of it will stop me in my tracks. It’s kind of like “Shiny Object Syndrome”, only literally. There’s a tree and street light combination on the corner of my block that inspired this painting.
This is 18″x24″, acrylic paint on canvas, April 27, 2017.