Category Archives: Visual

Painting, drawing, sculpture, digital photography, video, outsider art, White Noise, Flaws Theory, drawsofastyoucantthink, pressage, and other visual works and experiments.

Digital Decalcomania: Glass Beach Inspired

Posted on February 23, 2012 by

Glass Beach, An Infinite Source The above is a very small section near the center of the grayscale digital drawing project titled Glass Beach Decalcomania. The entire drawing took just under three months to complete, putting in several hours every … Continue reading →

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Forest Painting Mangled (decalcomania)

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

1976 Forest Painting Inspires 2011 Digital Decalcomania The header image for this blog is taken from a painting I did in 1976 of a section of forest immediately to the east of our cabin on Covelo Road in Mendocino County. … Continue reading →

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Bay Bark Decalcomania

Posted on January 27, 2012 by

Bay Bark Texture Inspires a Drawing We have a huge and very old Bay Laurel tree right outside our kitchen window. I used a photo of its bark to get me started on this digital decalcomania project. The finished drawing … Continue reading →

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Direct Paint

Posted on January 25, 2012 by

Decalcomania-Free! Alla Prima Instead Lil’ Feet is a project I did when I first loaded my new version of the software Painter in May 2011. I wanted to get the feel of the digital brushes and processes again, so I … Continue reading →

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Another Digital Decalcomania Painting

Posted on January 23, 2012 by

Decalco Pine Foliage: People & Places When I was able to start making marks and images again, I was delighted to realize that this time I was welcoming anything that arose in my mind as I looked at and worked … Continue reading →

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My Digital Decalcomania Process

Posted on January 22, 2012 by

It’s Not Really Decalcomania The term decalcomania refers to the transfer of a crazed image from one surface to another as used in faux furniture and other decorative techniques, and by surrealist painters, such as Max Ernst, who used the … Continue reading →

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Leda Progression

Posted on January 19, 2012 by

Using yesterday’s post as an example, I thought it might be useful to show how I respond to a random image of textures (and in this case colors), how that image provides me with visual ideas that are then modified … Continue reading →

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Leda, My Return to Painting Using Painter

Posted on January 18, 2012 by

In May 2011, having only whetted my appetite by doing those quick Photoshop drawings, I was delighted when I was able to open up my new purchase of Corel Painter and begin tapping into its virtual brushes and techniques. For … Continue reading →

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Finally Back from 9 Months Spent Drawing!

Posted on January 17, 2012 by

In April 2011, I discovered how to once again draw and paint (albeit digitally) despite my physical limitations. I had no idea that I would stop work on this blog and dive into an orgy of image-making, but that is … Continue reading →

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Image Making

Posted on February 22, 2011 by

I have spent more time in my life making images than doing any other activity. Playing with sound comes in a close second. Here is an image I made. Cottage Cheese Man, ink on paper, WN Folio #175. The above … Continue reading →

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