Spaceships rule

A detail from a piece about a spaceship (well what else?) encountering a deep space anomaly that appears to be a portal of some sort. Yes, there is always "story" behind my art...it's what I strive to do when I create.


Popular posts from this blog

Pulp Practice

Image
This poster was a study I put together spoofing the old 50's/60's Science Fiction movies. It is a digital collage intended for learning/practicing putting together the visual elements and saturated illustration styles of that type of pop culture images. In this case it was in the context of (again, lampoon of) a "political" statement. I was hoping to see if I could discover what it was that made those posters and pulp covers look/feel the way they did in regards to the viewer. I was basically happy with how it turned out. Note that this learning project/image uses materials that are copyrighted by their respective owners and were used solely for educational purposes.
Read more

On The Effects of Discovering Dieselpunk, et al.

Image
Recently I've been spending time learning about Dieselpunk, especially the art thereof and its relationship to the design/visual characteristics of retro-futurism and other related *-punk genres. Mainly because I am strangely attracted to these things...they just look super swell and (with this particular genre) I love machines that remind me of pulp science & horror fiction.  And, during this process I have begun to notice that a lot of my own work and the things I have been striving to achieve visually/artistically seem amazingly aligned with what I have been reading and seeing in terms of the thematic and visual elements. Bolts, bits of metal, mechanical widgets, incongruous technologies, post-apocalypticism (?) and glomming it all together ...that's what I do already but with no conscious thought of the genres or the art that's associated with them. The thing is, it's a struggle to make it work, often not knowing what I am working toward even though I may h...
Read more

Verbosity and A Philosophical View

Okay, I had been doing a lot of reading about various stuff and looking at other art and trying to make sense of my place or the place my work is at, in the universe of creativity, labeled "art making." One thing that I find myself doing is updating old works as time goes by, whether it be assimilating them into newer pieces or just simply creating a newer version with new things in it -- the beauty (and curse, perhaps) of the digital medium. Either way the end result is a new piece of art, in actuality. In my head I have tried to make sense of that, and why it's okay. The philosophy I've then come up with regarding the creating of art includes the conclusion that a work is never truly finished. It merely exists in a particular state at any given point in time. A work of art continues to evolve even if it is only in its contextual relationship to the externally changing world in which it exists. In other words it changes only because the world in which it exist chan...
Read more