Remix - Melt

"Melt" from series "Remix" (2012)   

This is another in my series "Remix," in which I am recycling old artwork in order to create new mixed media pieces. My old ideas and designs are taking on a new life, divorced from their original contexts. I've also used leftover scraps from cutting paper, as well as tracing paper sketches that I originally used to decide where I'd place things in various compositions.

Explanation of the elements in "Melt": The scraps from where I cut out carrots for a different project became a strange flower-like design. Tracing paper sketches of a foot and a mouth seemed to work well in the composition, balancing out the other greyscale element, the flying clock. The flying clock, my logo, reappears in several more in the series.

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Digital Painting: Motorcycle

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My first digital painting in several years, since my focus has shifted to traditional media. This is also my first image utilizing as reference the huge log of pictures Chris Foote and I have taken with our smartphones throughout the summer.

Remix - Collector

"Collector" from series "Remix" (2012)

Part of my series "Remix." This image began as an experiment with acrylic techniques and became something more when I added the digital elements.

In a previous project, I'd scanned many of the rocks, beads and trinkets I'd collected over the years in order to create a digital collage related to my own life. In "Collect," I reused some of those digital scraps - infinitely reproducible digital representations of real objects. Photoshop became a way of easily rearranging and recoloring these elements.

I plan to eventually make my digital scraps available to the public to create their own designs with. Ideally, this could become a contest in which submitters could vote on their favorite works. In future posts, I'll expand on my ideas.

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Remix: Eyeless

"Eyeless" from series "Remix" (2012)

This is part of a series of experimental 60s-influenced mixed media works, developed through a stream of consciousness process. Each design element represents an idea, transitioning into the next. The viewer is encouraged to let their eye wander over the image, exploring each separate part and its connection to the whole.

This particular piece, "Eyeless," began as a sketch in the margins of one of my notebooks. (I had doodled it during one of my classes.) When redrawn as a full piece, I felt that it was missing something. I added the face with no eyes, which was taken from a pre-existing digital piece of mine and recreated with colored pencil and acrylics layered over marker.

I made it my mission to use as many different media as I could. I ended up using marker (Sharpies and Prismacolor), colored pencil (Prismacolor), acrylic paint, pencil, charcoal, pen, oil pastel, and glue.

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