Digital Art
Child Out of Time
Series 1. Child Out of Time. This collection (24 images) emanates from the concept of childhood as enduring beyond time and place: as memory, reverie, yearning, and hope. Its monochromatic scale evokes a sense of timelessness while also emphasizing the subtleties and strengths of tone, the distinctiveness and drama of the image rendered solely in terms of shapes, forms, and light. *Garlands, in this series, won a First Place in The Artist's Magazine 2010 all-media competition.
Process: In these digital paintings, I paint on an electronic tablet with pressure- sensitized "brushes" responsive to my hand. A computer and monitor let me see the effects as I draw and paint on different layers of my emerging composition. Pixels, rather than paint, are deposited and pushed or pulled into place at different layers of the work, from microscopic to surface.
The techniques I use are similar to techniques I use painting in oils or acrylics: sketching out the compositional elements, modeling the big forms, refining the details. Many of the works rely entirely on this kind of painting "from scratch". I also include "collage" in some compositions, introducing personally altered elements from my other paintings and photos.
Each of these works is an original, not a reproduction (not a giclée) of a work that exists in another form, such as an oil painting. Like a traditional etching or lithograph, each work is made entirely by me, using archival pigment inks on acid-free artists' paper.
Each work occurs in a signed, limited edition of 10. Click on image to enlarge it. For purchase information, click Contact above.