Artistic Biography
During 2003, I began my formal art career in the Digital art field, mostly doing photomanipulations using stock, and original 3d work. I began painting and scanning small acrylic abstracts, and natural elements such as mud, ink, and coffee stains on notecards, modifying those digitally, and applying them as textures to my digital work. I progressed to incorporating my own digital photographs and eventually stopped using stock altogether. Eventually I no longer made photomanipulations at all. I began to focus on the acrylic abstracts and started producing these as stand alone abstracts, but still in the hybrid realm of having been digitally manipulated. As a result only Prints of this type of hybrid/digital work are available.
In 2005, I began to study traditional graphite, charcoal, and conté crayon drawings on paper, especially botanicals and figurative studies. This led to what I call "mixed media digital", which is a traditional drawing, that has been digitally colored and sometimes enhanced digitally. I now use this term to include digitally manipulated traditional paintings.
Around my early November birthday, in 2005, I began painting figurative and botanical works in oils on canvas and hardboard. These works were the first truely traditional art pieces I made, having no digital alteration, and being available for sale as Originals and not just Prints.
The categories of my artwork are:
- Paintings: oils on canvas
- Drawings: charcoal, carbon, graphite, and other media on paper
- Digital: digitally manipulated original drawings & paintings, digital collage, and fractals
The various available forms of my artwork are:
- Originals: traditional paintings on canvas or drawings on paper
- Prints: digital reproductions sold as limited or open edition machine lithographs or giclees (zhee-CLAY)
- Merchandise: digital reproductions sold as open edition postcards, posters, or printed on various forms of merchandise
I expect to continue experimenting with various media and styles, and intend to try my hand someday at pastels and encaustic. For now, traditional paintings of fantastical figuratives comprise my primary repetoire.
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