digital art

Arboreal art

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Take a photograph and reinvent it to create a brand new work.

This collection of digital art was inspired by a post by South African photographer and artist Herman van Bon who used a specific material to create a series of abstracts.

I examined my own images of tree wood in its various forms, and decided to take it far from its original state with a digital injection of colour and fresh textures, emphasising – often transforming – what was already there.

Everything from molten gold to multi-colour madness resulted from the organic, dependable hues of wood.

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Mustard tracks

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Mustard tracks

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A mass of bright yellow scored through a deep red backdrop.

This is a frame of digital art created from an original photograph. A wholly natural substance and texture is at the heart of this work. I have produced a series based entirely on one source. Come back soon to see more and find out what it is.

Unless you’d like to hazard a guess in the meantime…

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Garden abstraction

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Lounger lights

This is a story of lazing in a neat, suburban garden. It’s bounded on all sides by fences and is carefully sculpted. The sun beats down and you screw up your eyes to combat the glare.

You see a series of abstract moments, unusual visions from the corners of your eyes. Little corners that invade your being from the inactivity of the day. And the sunlight plays on the conventional parameters of this garden to conjure up dreams of a languid summer day in this garden…

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Bokeh blobs

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The rain had been falling in pulses all afternoon. This was a welcome break in the weather when the sun streamed through the trees. I caught the light while the lens was at rest, creating a whole frame of bokeh and orbs. 

With a second shot, I applied the digital paintbrush to make a blue frame punched through with light.

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Winter bokeh

Bokeh in blue ink

After the rain, the moisture-dappled surfaces of some parked cars were irresistible to shoot with my macro lens. The fine focus honed in on the droplets, while more bokeh was revealed. All hail the wet weather!

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Accidental shootings

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These are three shots that were not meant to be. 

I was taking photographs with my new macro lens on a sunny afternoon in the park. My camera was anything but ready to take a picture in a spot where there was plenty of dappled light, but the shutter was released in a moment of clumsiness.

A multi-coloured, out of focus swirl was the result. But I didn’t delete. I liked the unintended effect and repeated with a slightly different exposure. And again.

Being a fan of experimenting with digital art, I edited the second shot in monochrome and inverted the colours of the third. Maybe it’s criminal to discard shots, however accidental. Do you agree?…

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Accidental abstract One

Accidental abstract two - clean

Accidental abstract Three

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