Here are a couple of my paint machines. I think a better awareness of all the filters and their functions would enhance the experience. But I have to say, no matter how you construct your paint machine, you never know what is going to come out. The ones I couldn't wait to run... Dud....and others .... wow, I did that. Everyone keep try 'em!

This piece is by Gun Legler from Sweden. She went to art school for classic art studies i.e. pens, paper, paint… you know what I’m saying. The majority of her work is now in digital art. Gun prefers to work with PaintShopPro but does use Photoshop. Her work is pertinent to this week’s assignment because she focuses on the use of textures. As I looked through her gallery, I feel like I was staring at lost soul materializing in the photos. After reading her biography, I realized the connection I was feeling. Prior to Gun’s art career, she was a child psychologist who decided to change professions at forty years old. Perhaps the lost souls, she worked with are haunting her works. Nonetheless, her work is fantastic. She has talent at creating powerful images.

Week 2 Oil Painting

Here is a picture of my baby that I turned into an oil painting. I love it!

MOCA Week 3

This is Bloody String Theory by Constance Peckman. I LOVE the artwork here, as it appears to be some blueprint of a cathedral building which secretly holds underground laboratorys or libraries of some sort. The colors are brilliant and the blackness which highlights the architecture give it an epic feeling of importance within these walls.

"Wireframe is an intergal part of Second Life. It is the core of our world. Our foundation. The skeleton of our pixelated beings and our environments. Definitely wireframe was created by and for computer geeks, which does not include me. I stumbled upon it and was immediately enchanted with it. I am positive it was created for no other purpose than for me to play with."

"To document our own personally created world and to display our human emotions and beauty through this virtual world has become my challenge and art form of choice. There are few joys that match what I feel when I capture a very human emotion or living scene discernable in a wireframe format. I hope some of my work will relate to you."

From Constancepeckman.com you can order this print. It is actually the centerpiece on her main page of the website.
Name: Bloody String Theory
Genre: Wireart
Medium: Fine art paper

I highly advise checking her website out, as there are some AWESOME examples of art there...

Painting Machine Bloody Knife

I thought the idea of a Jack the Ripper theme would go good when using the Distort-->Shear technique as a splatter technique. I crossed two layers as if it were a Jolly Roger (skull & crossbones seen on flags on pirate ships) and used the Shear technique with the last layer adjusting the Opacity so it is a subtle touch. One of the first layers had a black outline effect that makes the blood have a gelled look to it, similar to what raspberry jam looks like spread on toast, odd analogy I know...

Painting Machine John Wayne

This is the iconic John Wayne, as we all remember him in full cowboy attire. I altered the effects of the painting machine, and used a grainy texture that you would find on the sandstone walls found in western-themed restaurants found in amusement parks and genuine Mexican restaurants such as Senor Panchos.

MOCA Week 4

This week I wanted to look through the fractal art on MOCA because that is what we are working on in class. I was most intrigued by the artist Karin Kuhlmann. My favorite piece of her gallery is called "Moony." I really like the bright colors that she used and the highlights and shading where the colors mix together. All of her pieces on MOCA were made with Photoshop using KPT5's Frax Frame filter and can be characterized as fractals. They all look very similar to the type of work we have been working with in Apophysis.

Painting Machine Blade

The Character Blade, opposite my last post from Deacon Frost, didn't quite workout the way I wanted to by the pre-set action keys, so I will try re-doing it.

Painting Machine Deacon Frost

This is my first attempt at the machine painting technique. Very wild stuff! It is of an actor named Stephen Dorff who played a character named Deacon Frost in the movie Blade. He was the head of a vampire gang, and was the nemesis of Wesley Snipes' character Blade. I left the remnants of his face, especially his eyes, standing out through the picture as he has a powerful, sexy stare that entrances victims and sends chills down the spines of the most stout of heroes.

I also uploaded a version in which he is in a sphere cutout, which gives the effect that his face is in the moon, which is associated with night creatures such as vampires and werewolves.

Painting Machine

The top photo was originally a picture of a leopard and the bottom a field. The use of filters and blending options made for some amazing outcome.

Oil Painting

This photo was originally a landscape in Germany. The outcome really seems that I actually painted the image using oil. This was fun!

Week 3 Painting Machine

This is my first attempt at digital painting. The beautiful and gorgeous Halle Berry was my first subject. I also did one of Robert Redford and Diana Ross. Needless to say, they did not come out as well. Will be posting a few more tomorrow.

MOCA week 3

This week I chose a fractal art piece since I worked in Apothysis this week. This was created by Karim Bouchnak. His art is essentially fractal based but he sometimes collages or overlays his fractals with photographs or drawings. He writes, "Everyone can find his own history reflected in an image." After seeing the many creations you can create with this style art I have become a fan of it. Here is some more of his work http://karimkunst.at/system/

painting machine

Apophysis

This was a challenge for me. After figuring out how to change the shapes it became somewhat fun and a lil addictive. I would love to see the rest of the creations with this program.

week 3 MOCA

"Cura dell'Incanto in Chiave Minore" Alessandro Bavari, 2006
According to the MOCA website:

"Alessandro Bavari is a pioneer of surrealistic art on the web and his work has been so influential and emulated that he may be considered the father of this major strain of digital art. He has created "a kind of contamination among the arts," as one critic put it, an admixture of photography and digital manipulation that ransacks art, culture and history."

Predator

This is the Predator from the science fiction movie who hunts by sensing heat, so I ran him through some filters to give the illusion that we are viewing him through the same lens he sees us.

Week 3

Is anyone having problems viewing week3 "How To? video? I am able to hear the instructor however unable to view. Help! Thanks.

Painting Machine

I like this one better of Lady Gaga. See the rest of my examples at skspight.

my previous post

the pics i posted in my week 3 moca post are backwards- the one on the bottom was intended to show up first with the text beneath it so you would see the leopard pic after you read the text.....oh well- you probably get the point anyway!!!

Week 3 MOCA

ok- this i love because of the name i think- Fish Fry 4th of July. Its perfect. This piece and the following piece both received honorable mention in a MOCA competition. Tell me- do any of you see any familiar technique in the following image entitled Strength (which, like I said, received an honorable mention also!!) It seems like fish fry is made by repeating the fish skeleton image over and over on the mosaic colored background he laid down as the background- like this could be something done completely on PS- but I have not researched it to find out for sure....more to come if I do find out.

MOCA WEEK 2

While I am not ususally a fan of very abstract art such as this- there is a very tangible element of a Total Recall ( see that movie?) future world here and its entitled: Pompeii, which has its own similar implications. I also really love the color scheme for some reason. This artist had a gallery of 12 images - this was the only one that really made me stop......from what I could get from the website- which I suggest everyone visit- is that his art,which he calls dynamic painting, is a fusion of technological science and art- he (and i dont even know what this really means) comes up with the original shapes and colors and makes algorithms out of them and a lot of other stuff- but the art is usually moving and with sound- so it need be displayed on a screen if you want to get its full intent, go to his site and view the demo and all the different galleries- on moca he only had 12 images posted- there are many more on his site- unusually for me I fell in love with his stuff- i want some for my own! site: www.sanbasestudio.com

MOCA - Week 3

This week’s artist is David Makin who is a computer programmer and lives in North Wales, England. His artistic genre is fractal art which is can be called mathematical images.

He creates his artwork using mathematical formulas (color algorithms). The artist uses software applications Ultrafractal and MMFrac in creating his masterpieces.

The image I chose from his works is called “Starfruit.” He created this artwork by creating three separate color algorithm layers that would define the artwork. These layers compose of the shape, color, texture and characteristics of the image. It is a very technical and complex process.
This image was a winner of the International Benoit Mandelbrot Fractal Art contest in 2006.

Apophysis

I have just been experimenting with Apophysis and this is one of the images that I came up with.

First try at painting machine technique - Lady Gaga

I am having difficulty with photoshop CS4. I am trying to rectify the problem and hope to have it resolved when I get home this evening. I will then complete my oil painting assignment. Also, I updated my 2nd assignment on an artist according to your review.

Angela

oil

This became my favorite oil transformation. I mostly used pictures that I took: My Fotothing account

my fav oil transformation

this one came out so pretty, but when I tried to apply this action to some of my own photos from a previous class, they came out terribly!! more on fotothing.....

I've always liked typography. Years ago in an art class we had to create the alphabet into a new typeface design. I chose as my topic 'insects'; found an insect that began with each letter in the alphabet to represent that letter and formed each letter into the insect it represented in 3D! Fun! So I was drawn to Christel Dall's work, who recently began to explore the realm of digital art. She loves to work with typography and to incorporate words as compositional elements in pictures. She says she can be 'everything from a minimalist to a surrealist' depending on where the whim takes her. Adobe Photoshop is her preferred tool. It is written of her collection: "The images here are cries of communication: letters, missives, messages from the heart. This is as close as graphics gets to autobiography." This piece says: 'You lied to yourself before you lied to me. So U know who U R? You're a FAKE, And I'm for real.' If you like this form of art, you may like 'The Book of Psalms' illustrated by Timothy R. Botts.

Andy Warhol

This effect on digital photo's was fun! I utilize the pencil icon to fill connect lines between the background and image. This help to fill me the background color only and not allow the paint to flow into the image.

Photo Effect - Oil Painting

My first attempt using various filters in creating photo effect.

Bora Bora

Here is another photo to oil painting. This is my dream vacation - Bora Bora. Hopefully, one day I will make it there but in the mean time, I can dream. I have to say, I absolutely love the Shift+Ctrl+F12 shortcut.

Photo into Oil Painting

Here is my first attempt at changing a photo into an oil painting - yiippee!!. I love flowers so I chose roses.

my first try at oil the "right" way

ok this is my first try at this- not too bad....now that its one click , it'll be really fun to transform everyhting

Oh, i'm so sorry for not listing the name of the artist(1st Bob Marley).This is my second Any Warhol image. she is a famous actor; her name is Meghan Good.

here is my Andy Warhol. i hope you guys like it! there more to come...

week 2 assignment Updated

The painting I chose for this weeks assignment was created by Myriam Lozadi-Jarvis. I chose this picture because it is very unique and it is something that I would hang in my living room, which is very modern. This picture was painted and named "just suppose". The artist uses various techniques, but her art is mostly drawn and painted. She writes, "I record bits and pieces of my life process and incorporate taste, smell and sensual pleasure in my work...It is no longer just painting, drawing, printmaking or photography, but all of these together, in a profoundly deep expression that is relevant to our time and increasingly interconnected world."

Liz Taylor

Here is my version of Andy Warhol's silk screen image. I must say, I did this one picture about 5 times because in the beginning, I was having a hard time, but I really did enjoy experiencing this new concept.

This week, I picked surrealistic art by Alessandro Bavari. The collection is called Contamination among the Arts. He does all of his computer art with Photoshop. His work is a combination of painting functions and photomontage techniques. I enjoy these pieces because you can just let your reality go and allow your creativity to just keep sprouting new ideas. It’s like doodling to the Nth degree. They can look bizarre but I feel that it is completely unadulterated and spontaneous. Lots of fun, like reading a good story.

MOCA Week 3

This week I was really drawn towards the work of Maxim Shoshief, a digital artist from St. Petersburg, Russia. He specialized in art restoration in college, but learned how to do computer art all on his own. I have included "Zucilo" in my blog, which is my favorite of his pieces. He creates strange beings that remind me of characters from a Tim Burton movie. Several of his other works look like muppets. I just think his work is really fun and creative. It is like he is creating his own world and his own creatures that live in it. Maxim mainly uses earth tones and yellows. His pieces are very cartoon-like and eerie at the same time.

owl oil

ok- this is what I came up with because I could not get the tutorial about this to play- so i improvised!! better to come