More art for upcoming group exhibition

Three more images done on the computer for the upcoming group exhibit ROUND IN CIRCLES which will be at the Scarlet Macaw Community Art Center in Sawyer, Michigan.

Altering the art for the new exhibition

In the last post I showed a couple of new pieces for an exhibition which were done in black and white. I decided to add color and am thinking about entering these instead, they would certainly pop out in a group show. These prints are 13 x 19" and are printed on archival paper.

More new art for new exhibition

Here are a few more prints that I did for the ROUNDS AND CIRCLES exhibition that's coming up soon at the Scarlet Macaw Community Art Center. These were all created on the computer using Photoshop Elements 2.0

Fund raising benefit coming up

The Harbor Country Public Arts Initiative has chosen one of my sculptures to be constructed and erected in Sawyer, Michigan at the Red Arrow Highway and Sawyer Road. The Craig Smith Gallery is having a fund raising benefit to raise money for the construction of the piece which will be welded steel and painted orange. The sculpture will be 18 feet in height.

New art for new exhibit

The Scarlet Macaw Community Art Center in Sawyer. Michigan is going to have a new exhibition soon titled ROUNDS AND CIRCLES and I started creating some images for the show. These were all created on my computer using Photoshop Elements 2.0






The above image is actually the view outside the window of my New York studio in the 1980's, minus the red ball, of course. That red ball is actually the ball that my cats play with, I've used it many times in my photomontages.

A step by step demo

One of my readers, Ruth Kaldor, expressed interest in seeing a demo of just how these parodies are created, so I produced this demo. It will probably appear much less complex than it is in reality, but an artist must keep practicing and experimenting to understand just how create art and graphic images on the computer


I first did this figurative sketch using a brush and ink on layout paper, then scanned the image into the computer.


Next, I placed the scan into the cover format and added a background color. This was all done in Photoshop Elements 2.0


I then added the image of my hand into the composition as seen below.




The next step was to start adding color to the figure so that it would appear that I was painting.


After that, I added more color to the masthead and also added the speech balloons and text. It looks quit simple and to me, it is, but I've had years of experience with creating images on the computer. For the beginner, this would be quite a complex endeavor.

Parodies

I'm having a great time creating these comic book cover parodies.


Here I used one of my figure studies which was part of an exhibition at the Craig Smith Gallery in Harbert, Michigan. Because of many problems, Craig has moved out of that space, but still has his other gallery at the Gordon Beach Inn in Union Pier, Michigan as well as the space in Oak Park, Illinois.


For this cover I used a cartoon drawing that I did of Gloria to use on one of her business cards. At first she didn't like it, but now has gotten used to it. These covers, like all of the others, were created on a Mac computer, using Photoshop Elements 2.0.