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"Old Masters 02", Meddled With After showing you how expressive layered faces can be, this time faces are otherwise meddled with for disguise. I should …

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"Old Masters 02", Meddled With After showing you how expressive layered faces can be, this time faces are otherwise meddled with for disguise. I should …

"Old Masters", Faces Many are the ways to merge faces and come up with a new face one believes even though it has two mouths. …

Collection 010421 Three recent images that please me. I’m in the process of having test prints made. So far very satisfied. But how does someone …

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Recent and Very Recent Three from the past couple of weeks, two from a new idea Sunday.

Patterns 03 Lalapaloozas These five examples show how the urge to make patterns can keep growing more complex. We started a month ago with simple …

Collection Patterns 2 This is another collection of patterns, more complex than last week. My next post in two weeks will be the 3rd with …

Collection Patterns Simple One of my traits is a very strong interest in patterns. Don’t know why or whence. But 20 plus years ago when …

Altered Portraits I like things better when they’re distorted, mauled, put in vivid contrast. A portrait is often a beginning that’s fun to mess with, …

Pairs One way to combine images is to pair them, drawing attention to how they echo each other. I looked through literally thousands of images …

Recent Work, September 2020 As I’m blogging I’m constantly working on new artwork. I want you to understand that my work isn’t about a style …

The Subject Is Cows Most of us can recognize a cow silhouette even if we buy our milk at a store buried deep in a …

Breathers 3, Surreal People You may recognize Sarah Bernhardt, a Hunk of Metal and a BLAM from the initial Breathers set. The hunk of metal …

Breathers 2, Storyform We don’t know of any other species that understand what stories are. Maybe New Caldonean crows. Quite possibly Neanderthals. I suspect the …

Breathers Breathers are a major subject in my art. Literally, anything that breathes. Grasshoppers, groupers, giraffes. Bacteria, but now I know there are anaerobic bacteria …

Landscapes Landscape is a quintessentially horizontal art — a strip of land; some trees or islands or far mountains for vertical incidence; a strip of …

Work Inspired by Images at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Please compare last week’s collection with this week’s. The point is how surprisingly the source …

Fish and Sea-things As I introduce you to more of my artwork I hope you get used to the idea that style consistency doesn’t matter. …

Work Inspired by Images on textures.com I’ve published today a pair of posts that talk about the influence of art materials on what the artist …

Kosher, Not Last Monday I showed work that detailed the differences between my techniques of Color Studies and Layerworks. Today we’re back in nearly every …

Peacock - Nodewerk These works I call Nodewerk-heavy. The elements they’re made of were mostly created in software that existed about a decade or so …

Layerworks I call artworks that literally use one of Photoshop’s premier features Layerworks. Photoshop allows you to play with possible color effects of one layer …

The NOTA-WEBSTER Dictionary copyright Sloan Nota 2000-2020 A   abmollify v To mollify improperly, so as to irk, insult or anger instead. agriformalities n Modern …

Color Studies Color Studies are the first of my new artworks — giving up the idea that some images just don’t go with others (work …

Andriyko Podilnyk on unsplash.com. https://unsplash.com/photos/WjJmdcpA4Eg     Inward with the Droste Spiral     The photo above by Andriyko Podilnyk looks up a fancy stairwell. …

Layered Shapes I’ve started working with another meaning-bearing aspect of image-joinery, the silhouette. Even with plain metal cookie cutters you can tell an Abraham Lincoln …

  Two photos from unsplash.com. Church by ioana-cristiana-gT-b_BSE81I-unsplash. Ship by dylan-shaw-30Oov5eaSso-unsplash.   Using Photoshop Paintbucket Tool and Patterns to Make Abstractions from Photos In today's …

LuxDraw by Norbyte   Couple of months back I bought the app LuxDraw from Norbyte. It offered to let me draw overall patterns. I’m a …

Including a Motif     Every once in awhile I come across an image -- you can see it in the first image here, 4 …

Blue Light     Started playing with this photo of a blue light along with other textures.com and Unsplash images that were in a folder.

The App Girih   This isn’t the feature I’d planned but I have yet again (again again again…) had my Apple password go incognito. Twenty-some …

Tile Photos FX, puzzle-cut mode   First I got the idea to use the software to make my own Tangrams set. So I started with …

The App Scale: Beautiful Fractals   I downloaded for free from the Apple App Store a lovely nicely-featured little app for Fractals. Michael Fogleman [ https://www.michaelfogleman.com/ ] …

Torso Incognito   Hereby hangs a tale. A decade ago I downloaded a file, The Venus of Cnidos. Maybe she was an Aphrodite? I was …

3-D Materials   I enjoy mining files designed for 3D software and then using them in 2D digital images. The “wrong” way.

Photoshop Grids Awhile ago I inadvertently turned on Photoshop’s preference for placing a grid over every new file. Some areas had a tighter mesh than …

Cutting Up Art with the App Tiles FX   Last Playground I was playing with equations from Graphing Calculator and seeing how Apple Motion might …

Playground 081020   This is the third collection of video tries in Apple’s Motion. I like how I’m progressing. But today I downloaded something small …

Stacked math movies   Last Playground I was playing with equations from Graphing Calculator and seeing how Apple Motion might put them into animations. Today …

Visual Math and Video Dance I’ve recently returned to two old favorites -- the math visualization program Graphing Calculator and the video effects editor Apple …

Interference Effects moire [moiré] n. an independent usually shimmering pattern seen when two geometrically regular patterns (such as two sets of parallel lines or two …

Years of Trying 3D Effects I've been trying to connect with 3d capabilities since some time in the '90s. Here's a smattering of examples over …