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Tuesday, April 17, 2018

Underwater Library

I'm not sure how I came up with this idea. Sometimes looking at other art or photos gives me inspiration and I write it down. Later I will go back to my notes and if something catches my imagination I'll run with it. The original vision when starting this was to have a more prominent looking library underwater but found some interesting background items that looked more like it was a library from long ago. It just built from there, literally.  

Wednesday, April 11, 2018

Tulip Fields

As part of my digital art class at AWAKE, one of the lessons covered the dispersion technique where something explodes out of an object. I thought of doves flying out of a white tulip which became the subject for a new composition. The photo of tulips in the field were bright pink with a boring building in the background but I liked the general feel of it. So I changed the tulips to white, added an interesting barn structure and changed up the sky to appear more dramatic. The combined background layers were then placed inside the old book to give it some dimension and then aged. The antique pen was a finishing touch.