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Author Archives: bobcomings
Direct Paint
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
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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Tagged decalcomania, random source, william burroughs
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My Digital Decalcomania Process
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
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
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!
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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Tagged adaptive, digital drawing, digital painting, drawing
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Om Generator
Bolinas Om Generator In 1967, on one of my almost daily beachcombing walks at Agate Beach near Bolinas, California, I found a piece of very weathered, scarred, and pitted black plastic pipe about 12 feet long. The inside diameter was … Continue reading
The Hummer
Discovery In the mid-1980’s, I went on an all day field trip with several dozen students and a few fellow teachers to the Oakland Museum. During a break I was walking in the gardens of the Museum chatting with some … Continue reading
Image Making
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
The Bolinas Sound Toy
Description Similar to the African Kalimba, the Bolinas Sound Toy (BST), shown here without mics attached, produces a wonderful polyrhythmic array of twanging, clicking, and ticking sounds by simply pressing down then quickly releasing one or more of its twangers … Continue reading
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