Digital manipulation seems to be becoming part of my process so here's a series of urban decay studies I'm working on. When I'm not feeling it, or I'm unhappy with what I'm making, I photograph it and mess around with it on the computer. You can remove the tape digitally - by cropping - and get a better look at the work. I often worry if digital experimentation is valid. I mean digital art is valid art, right? So a mix of digital and 'real' is okay too? And most of this is taken from my own drawings or collages, nobody else's work or photos, so it's at least original. (The only way I could sell it realistically is by having giclee prints made, but I'm nowhere near that stage yet. I just love playing around digitally. I consider it another media in my mixed media stuff.)
Top left and middle left - Two actual mixed media studies scanned in with cables added digitally.
Top right - I hated this in real life. The piece still has the tape on and looks a mess, but now I've photographed it I kind of love it.
Middle right - unfinished and I hate it.
Bottom left and right - Two of my marker drawings of telegraph wires superimposed onto digital backgrounds. The backgrounds are layers of scans and selections taken from my own work. I kind of like these too, but think they're a bit gimmicky, so they're just for funtiems.
(Real mixed media on cartridge paper, combined with digital elements.)
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