Art Gallery

Interested in seeing my artwork, eh? I hope you won’t be too disappointed. All comments on my work are most welcome, of course; send me feedback if you’d like to tell me what you think (good or bad).

I provide thumbnail versions below. Click on the thumbnail images if you wish to see larger versions. Many of the images themselves require a computer display of at least 800x600 pixels in order to be completely visible without scrolling.

I’ve divided this artwork into several categories, based on how it was produced.

Actual photographs (no artistic retouching or reprocessing or anything) may be seen in a separate section of my site, the Photo Gallery.

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Handmade Art

The following art is completely handmade, i.e., computers had nothing to do with its creation. The only tools involved were pencils, crayons, paper, paint, etc. If you compare these works to the computer-enhanced and computer-generated art that follows them, you’ll see just how much I depend on computers in order to produce any real “art.”

… Woman with Hair Pulled Back mechanical pencil on white cardstock     (365x480x256 B&W JPEG)     This is a pencil drawing of a woman I saw in a magazine advertisement. The dark specks and other irregularities seen in the large version are a consequence of the damage the drawing has suffered over time, being moved from one cardboard box to another.       … Woman with Hand in Hair mechanical pencil on white cardstock     (363x380x256 B&W JPEG)     This is a pencil drawing of another woman I saw in a magazine advertisement. This drawing has also suffered over time, but, like the previous one, it was never that good to begin with.       … Graveyard at Halloween Crayola® crayons and ink on construction paper     (449x308 true-color JPEG)     This is a drawing of a graveyard at Halloween, executed in crayon and “black magic” (black ink that beads off of the crayon). It is quite old and in rather poor condition.

Computer-Enhanced Art

The art below is built up from mixed media, typically starting with a photograph and progressing through various forms of computer manipulation to develop something that looks handmade or at least “artistic.” I provide details of how each work was created.

… Enigmatic Woman in Front of Eiffel Tower (1997) composite digital image (380x473x16M color JPEG) This is an impressionistic composite built up from several photographs using various computer tools.   … Drawing of Enigmatic Woman in a Beret (1998) digital illustration (376x472x16M color JPEG) This is a freehand computer illustration based on the same photograph used to create Enigmatic Woman in Front of Eiffel Tower.   … Eiffel Tower in Heavy Color (2009) enhanced digital image (725x950x16M color JPEG) This is a very impressionistic “painting” of the Eiffel Tower.   … Boat on Seine River (2008) enhanced digital image (605x455x16M color JPEG) This is a very impressionistic “painting” of a boat on the Seine River near the Pont Neuf.   … Woman Standing in Airport (1998) composite digital image (338x470x16M color JPEG) This is very extensively modified photograph of a woman standing in an “airport.”   … Seine River at Sunset (1997) enhanced digital image (390x256x16M color JPEG) This is a carefully-altered photograph of the Seine River on a cloudy day at Sunset.   … Hand-Tinted Photograph of Seated Woman (1997) mixed media (395x357x16M color JPEG) This is a hand-tinted and reprocessed glamour photograph of a young woman; all reprocessing was performed using a computer.   … Aurora Tree (2000) mixed media (356x475 true-color JPEG) This is a surrealistic image of a tree against a dark sky with the Northern Lights showing in the background.

Computer-Generated Art

The following art is completely computer-generated; that is, all I did was define the parameters and start the computer running.

… Abstract Shapes (1996) Ray-traced synthetic digital imaging (400x300 true-color JPEG) This is a ray-traced synthetic (computer-generated) image of a few abstract shapes with various textures. It represents my first foray into digital imaging. The subject isn’t that interesting, but it certainly is clean!

Mixed Electronic Media

The following art involves a combination of computer-generated images, digital manipulations manually specified, and real-world stuff.

… Technical Illustration (1999) vector-based drawing (798x498 true-color JPEG) This is a technical illustration of a camera that I did for practice.