Here you will find a collection of emotions and visual experience.

"...moments in time fueled by the drive to escape staring into the chaos of a blank sky..."

Art has always been present since I was a child, my father is an artist and my mother was always working with computers. Some images here are quite old and are listed under several different names, alias and titles, influenced by technology, video games, movies, music and people I have come across in my journey of visual expression. I hope you enjoy what you see here as much as I enjoyed creating it.

Medici is the Crowd

A few of you guys out there know I like Molly Crabapple's work. She helped Create Dr. Sketchy's Anti-Art School. She has been doing a lot lately with the Occupy movements and in this article discusses how she got her work out there and at affordable prices for her work.

This is a story about not asking permission.

It starts with Occupy Wall Street.

I'm an artist who got her first job making covers for SCREW Magazine. While I gradually carved out a nice career doing every sort of art that one can extract a living from, I had always been afraid to draw "activist things." Real struggles were serious business, and I drew girls with feathers and bare tits.  Making activist art seemed like posturing. So I'd sell paintings on Twitter to raise money for abortion funds, but hide the subversive bits in the margins.

The last few years changed that.

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Medici is the Crowd

Bethany Shorb

Even if you've never liked ties/bowties or scarves, a local artist working out of Detroit, Michigan, originally from Fairfield County, CT Bethany Shorb has been putting a new twist on them. I have a few ties from her and I really like her inventive designs. Check her out on Facebook and visit The Cyberoptix Tie Lab.

 

 

305 Knowlton

I've been looking around for local Art events and spaces and found this through the Bridgeport Arts and Cultural Council, and I might go here tomorrow and check it out. It's time I start doing more. I grew up in Bridgeport so it seems fitting I start there.

305 Knowlton Artists Collective - Open Studios

Capturing Heaven

This article is from Greg Martin, one of my favorite space artists. No were not related. I had been looking for this article for quite a while there's not a lot of places hosting it. It's in .pdf form. Give the site a second to load it it's a large file. I like to go back to this article every once and a while and re-read it. Click the Read More button to read it in full.

 

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Composition

Master Artist Philip Straub explains composition and gives several different ways an artist can successfully pull you into an image and give it that extra eye appealing oomph. Here's an excerpt from the intro.

CGSociety Feature Tutorial
Environment Concept Art:
Composition
Philip Straub, 5 December 2005

Composition is everything! No amount of detail in an illustration or Concept Painting will be successful without a strong composition foundation. Composition in Environment Concept painting can be quite difficult since your focal point usually isn’t as obvious as in a character piece.

Head over to the CG Society to read the full tutorial and check out more of Philip Straub's work at his website Utherworlds

The Librarian's Chronicles

So I was working on a new Digital Matte Painting these last few weeks. I added the Burlap mock book cover to the Concepts column on the front page (still need to add to the actual gallery). If you have seen it on Facebook, some of w.i.p I finished it. I decided not to add the octopus, and split the image into 3 separate items. I made each with a made up title and author as a 3 part book series (I'll add a few sentences to get a look behind the idea of them). Far from perfect I just had to finish this project and move on to the next. Check them out hope you enjoy them.

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Apocalypse Station

Apocalypse Station, one of my first photo manipulations. There's probably 16 or more different photos used to create this image. It took me over two weeks to be satisfied enough to stop it where you see here. The only thing I wish I would have done is adjust the lighting and cleaned up the upper rails of the train station dome, but I felt I had stayed on this image much too long. Click on the image to go to the gallery and see a larger version.

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