Gold Fish, Warhol, Elvis, Mashup
digital painting, 6/2018
Gold Fish, Visible Couple Mashup
digital painting, 6/2018
Gold Fish, Picasso Mashup
digital painting, 6/2018
Here are three Photoshop paintings, completed recently (6/2018). Size is 103Mb for each individual picture. I make prints with Arches paper and a new Pro Epson printer.
You may ask, "What does it mean?" And I will answer, "Your guess is as good as mine".
top picture, Warhol, Elvis, Goldfish Mashup, Warhol did a picture, Double Elvis, with a gun totting cowboy. Warhol, Elvis, goldfish and water, all mashed up. Elvis is shooting and the fish are flying.
middle picture, Visible Couple Mashup, Anatomy is so interesting. As a child, I was eager to explore the Visible Man toy. When the woman with an incubator belly came out, sometime later, I was delighted.
bottom picture, Picasso, Goldfish Mashup. A riff on another famous picture. When creating a digital painting I alter the inspiration picture by photoshopping the entire picture. This Picasso woman is a recognizable image but has been completely redone. I call the digital works digital paintings, because I have been a painter for such a long time and the texture looks like painting.
Water is a continuing element in my art. Several of my recent pictures and many past pictures have featured water. I love swimming, kayaking, and gazing at water. Ocean, Gulf, lakes and creeks. My studio flooded twice in 2015. There was some damage, the bottom of the sheetrock had to be redone, I accept this threat, because, nature is so beautiful here.
On the property here we have two creeks. One small, the other larger. There is a relatively low population density along the creek and running toward the Pearl River. This is a bird flyway and is bountifully populated with wild animals.
