MOCA 7

This image was created by Jago Titcomb a 22 year old student of illustration at the Falmouth College of Arts in the UK. I chose this picture because it reminded me of a dance team and my daughter danced for several years as a teenager. This image was created digitally using photoshop with a Wacom tablet and a mixture of scanned, painted, drawn and photographic sources.

grappa

Line Rider

Here is the link to my video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e65EzKx3oys

This week’s artist is Skydancer. She started making digital art with a Commodore 64 which is a extremely old maybe one of the first personal computers. Through the development of technology, she was able to explorer all types and styles of digital art programs. Though she can manipulate her images proficiently in several different programs, Skydancer prefers to finalize her work in Photoshop. She is quoted as saying” This is my journey. On the way I have made many discoveries. In my art I ask what moves you, what bothers you, and what speaks to your own spirit.” I believe her work, her style and her knowledge of digital art is summarized by that quote. I also think it is appropriate for a closing quote to this class. We have all journeyed through the digital, made discoveries and determined what we appreciate. Cheers to everyone! I hope to see you all on the other side of the screen.

MOCA week 7

Greg Klamt is a digital artist and composer/partner in the Spotted Peccary Music label. His graphic design supports his fine art and music careers. Greg's degree is in Chinese history, but he has studied fine and digital art at UCLA and elsewhere for years. His digital art has won numerous awards. He writes, "Intrigued by surrealism and and fantasy illustration as a child, I was inspired to create imagery where the edges of reality and imagination are blurred." He has travelled and photographed widely--rocks, sand, plants, walls, or anything that might feed his creativity--to expand his library of image resources. "Creating art with computers since 1982, I have sought to incorporate these elements with original drawings, mixed media paintings, etchings, elements of graphic design, found objects, and other resources in my digital paintings." He describes his work as techno-organic to suggest his style and creative process. His goal is to bring an organic, natural and integrated feel to his work...One of the challenges he enjoy most is moving beyond the feel of technology and instilling his individual style and perspective into his creations.

MOCA week 6

Lily E. Smernou calls her technique "constructed photography."

"Studies in arts and sciences celebrates the rare, the unusual, and the fantastic. Born out of large number of photographic images, some of the works took years to be completed. Lily Smernou contrasts photographic discoveries of specimens from diverse fields such as botany and architecture, with invented forms and dreamt mechanisms. Working in the style of magic realism, Smernou constructs images that most often incorporate architectural elements, reflecting her primary architectural background. Physical layers devised to create depth along with inherent perception principles and symbolism, distinguish her work. Smernou creates images with narrative qualities, allowing viewers to project their own worlds into her works.
"While pursuing her doctorate in quantitative psychology in the early ‘80s, Lily Smernou was also embarking on creative quests that would later evolve into a full-time artistic career. Being immersed in computers throughout her scientific endeavors, Smernou continues to work with technological tools in her creative pursuits. Infinite compositional possibilities and the freedom to express her vision can be realized thanks to technology. Her psychological background offered a unique in-depth exposure to varied perspectives and concepts that ultimately surface in her work and allow viewers to be engaged at multiple levels.

MOCA week 5

Teddynash is a photographer and photo artist from Germany. He brings wit, style and humor to his art. The image shown here is playful. He uses PhotoShop7 and Picture It 3. He says, "Important is not perfect artworks, but expression of emotions."

MOCA Week 7

Karim Bouchnak's image of Wish for Peace is a gorgeous piece that she used a fractal frame for. I was wondering as I looked through different MOCA pieces if we could combine fractals and grappas and photoshop elements together to make a total package image. I guess the answer is yes! I will have to try this before class ends and get it posted.

The message behind the artwork is pretty powerful, in that it says to me that the hands letting the bird go is a sign of peaceful constructive human beings that want nothing more than to have harmony in the world, while the tank with the soldier standing on top of it is showing us that there is someone willing to destroy good out there with the cannon pointed right at the bird.

His website was in German and I couldn't find any related links to his information or find a way to translate it, though I think I have a good idea as for his inspiration for the image since it speaks volumes to me and our class has opened us up to understanding the different art tools and how they work.

MOCA Week 6

Alessandro Bavari created this piece entitled Jerome's Garden. I chose it because it reminds me of the computer game Alice that I used to play. It was essentially Alice in Wonderland only a dark version in which the cover shows Alice holding a bloody knife and has blood on her dress. This piece reminds me of the scenery in the game especially with the tea pot shaped structures in the background.

Taken from http://www.alessandrobavari.com/

Alessandro Bavari was born in Latina, a coastal town south of Rome, Italy, on april 1963.
Grown up in an italo-french family, he was early attracted by artistic matters and decided to attend art college, where he began making photomontages at the age of 15.
Then, he studied scenography, photography, history of art and various other topics at the Academy of Fine Arts, in Rome, where he developped strong grounding in the techniques of oil, watercolours and engraving, while experimenting at the same time methods mixing tar, glue, industrial paint and exploring photographic printing techniques.
During these years, he took the habit of making numerous photographs everywhere he goes : human and animal matters, objects and architecture, pictures and landscapes, fossils and materials, which join his mental museum, also strongly influenced by indo-european cultural myths and allegories as well as 14th and 15th century artists.
Since 1993, he adds digital manipulation to his art, developping a personal artistic language using industrial and organic products from nature before incorporating photographic process, then computer digitalization, which leads to "a kind of contamination among the arts dissolving the boundaries which distinguish them".
Alessandro Bavari lives and works in Italy.

I believe the majority of the work was done with individual photos or screen shots of images found online and then photoshopped together. I also love the dullness to the art with very little color accentuating certain structures, which is something I enjoyed doing with Photoshop as well.

GRAPPA

The top image was created with the delayed trace grappa and the bottom utilizing the gestural moment grappa. I call that one "fireworks."

Line Rider

Although I had a very difficult time with this program, I did enjoy creating it. This video is the fourth one that I created over the last two weeks and needless to say, I do not know how the other three were deleted as I did not click on the trash can. Every time I went to use Hyper Cam, I lost all the work I did creating the other three Line Riders. I was very happy with the third one I created, as he flipped three times and had several jumps and I also got him to stop. The video you are about to see, only has one flip as I do not know how come I could not get him to flip again. The last 30 seconds of my 1 minute and 36 second video is of me trying to get the Line Rider to come to a stop. You can view this video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NCHHf55R-Rk I truly did my best, but I believe that I let my emotions get the best of me and this is what I ended up with. I will not be sad to put the Line Rider to rest.

This week I chose Alessandro Bavari. His artwork is very complex. He represent European mythology and literature. Most of his artwork represent humanism in ill art form. He uses any form of working instrument, like a brush, a palette or a darkroom.
(You’re definitely a true artist when create of nothiness). Again , another excellent week of Moca.

Last Week!

Wow... It is hard to believe that we are coming to the end... It's been quite a journey... I hope you enjoyed it!  I am impressed with the way the blog came out... so much energy and spirit here!  Everyone did a great job with not only their own projects, but the weekly MOCA assignment added an important dimension and context to your own creative work.

I'll be working on the grades next week.  The absolute deadline will be 9 a.m. on Friday morning....  I'll be  looking for each of your projects and for there to be 1 MOCA submission each week.  You are welcome to redo anything or catch up and do a project that you missed with no penalty.

Hopefully you'll keep going with this exploration!  We scratched the surface... your explorations on MOCA opened you eyes to some future possibilities for yourself.  Thanks everyone for your contributions as well as your patience and hard work!  Perhaps I'll see you in another class online.  If any of you has a suggestion for another art class you'd like to see online, let me know and perhaps I can develop it this summer...

Take care!

Line Rider 1st Attempt

This is one of the coolest things we have done. I love the different tools this class has opened up for us. It is amazing how much is out there that we don't know about. I could have added more background pictures but decided after losing my first one that took 2 plus hours due to Spycam opening a new web page over my Line Rider project I focused on the fundamentals in this one. Keep an eye out for a new one from Alucard soon! Here is the link...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJ_yYabfQCc
Enjoy!

i hope you guys like my second image. g.w.

i can't beleive it's our last week. okay, here is my gappa i hope you guys like it .

MOCA 7

"The Tree of Life" by Stefano Menicagli

Stefano Menicagli lives and work in Tuscany, Italy. He enjoys digital photography retouching photos, using Photoshop and digital painting images for digital manipulation. He became interested in fractal art and genetic mutations, genetically modified reality images. He utilizes Photoshop, Ultra Fractal and Groboto software in creating his works.

In regards to the image I chose, I like how he enhanced the earth and the tree as the focal point for the viewer to make their own interpretation of the image. This particular work was created in Photoshop. He quotes "The power of the real art is that to directly reach the brain and then to go down in the heart to release emotions. The role of the art is to raise the human spirit and increase the awareness of the beauty."

Blue and White Grappa

The top is a plain blue & white grappa, the second I created another image adding a fliter, and lastly added a filter and texture to another image.

MOCA wk 5

ELECTIC GEISHA by CHRISTOS MAGGANAS

The artist chosen for this weeks submission is Christos Magganas, born in Greece in 1972, he now lives and works in London. He is a graphic artist whose works consist of carefully and skillfully layered photography and 3d rendedered art. The above is a beautiful example of that. His other works are equally as surreal in design. Check him and other great artist at: http://www.pvuk.com/cgi-bin/aapp/forms.pl

Ah HA!!! Now i know how it was done!

NOW I see where Tom Crayns created this image from. As I was tooling around with Ultra Fractal 5 I found the almost identical image he used in the artwork that I selected back when class first started. Here I thought it was a painting done electronically with a lot of symmetrical color schemes, but all he did was take the Nova (Mandelbrot) formula and rotated it and probably doctored it up a bit and it was done. WOW! I thought there was so much more involved. I kind of feel cheated putting so much thought into it and how I believed there was a genuine appreciation for old literature and London fairy tails... but no... it's just a jazzed up fractal...

Fractal 1st attempt

I attempted this first image on the bottome and I really do like this program! I originally changed the exponent to 131 which was crazy big and not clear enough, so I toned it down a bit. As I explored the program I found the inside and outside settings which really bring the fractals to life. Awesome program!

MOCA Week 5

This has to be the wildest adaptation of sea shell photography I have ever seen! It is a piece by Gulnur Guvenc entitled Chtulhu People. It is so creepy in that it is what I envision a man that has become one with the ocean floor would truly look like. It looks like something out of Pirates of the Carribean.
Gulnur Guvenc is an architect and graphic design artist in Turkey. She writes, "These images are made from several scanned seashells, three photographs of a friend, some happy hours with Photoshop, and a little bit of lovecraft inspiration." The inspiration is tempered, or fevered, by a Byzantine imagination.

MOCA Week 4

After being out of commission for a while, I have some things to make up, so here it goes. I chose this piece entitled Arno Rousseau by Philippe Abril because I have always been a fan of the "old" style pictures that I remember looking at in my aunt's old colonial house, and how it has been adapted into a cartoonish jungle setting. I love the mysterious figure lurking in the background who seems to be playing a flute as if he is summoning these old spirits who have an other-worldly glow to them.

I could find no information on his artistic expressions or style, as the only biography was wrtten in French and I can't understand it. However, I did find some personal info on him which tells of his favorite artistic medium is that of acrylic painting and is a fan of abstract expressionism, and his favorite artist is Picasso.

I believe a simple photoshop job was done to crete this artwork, in tht it was nothing more than taking a pre-existing background art piece and inserting the old style pictures in and adding a glow to the people in it, giving it that eerie feeling.

Moca wk 4

The artist I chose for this submission is Dorothy Simpson Krause who's work is both traditional and digital. She's mixed media in that her technique encompasses transfering her digital images onto surfaces like wrinkled tin< plywood and tiles. She incorporates text also in her colage-like pieces. She creates alot of her work in book form and the process is very interesting. She scans the images onto paper and combines photos and text into the compositions that are placed in look book, and thats a simple explanaition. I enjoyed her works because I'm very into collage and printmaking processes as well as photography and her work really appealed to that. Visit her site: http://www.dotkrause.com/art/art.htm

MOCA week 7

Of all the techniques we've learned these past 7 weeks, I think my favorite is fractals. Karin Kuhlmann's abstract art is one of the glories of algorithmic art. She calls her work AbstrsXness, and it has had wide celebrity in recent years and has won a number of awards. Her fractal pieces are composed and colored in Photoshop using KPT5's FraxFram filter. She writes, "Like the surrealists and some abstractionists I prefer to utilize 'Automatism' for my creative process in order to release my inner pictures. I usally generate a series of inspiring and associative shapes on transparent layers and combine thenm to form subtle arrangements of glowing transparent areas of colors, including the light behind it." This piece is called 'Rapture of the Deep'.

another Grappa

Grappa

Line Rider

Yeaaaaa! I finally GOT it!! Here's my Line Rider... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JttXNRr1utI I hope the link works OK!

The wondeful world of the PAINTING MACHINE/ week 3 assignment

This is my favorite (above)

After a some late nights and screaming fits, I've done it. I love the results but damn am I having a difficult time with this photoshop biz. BUt here they are ( the painting machine creations), the remainder will be posted in my fotothing (anailah511) ........ENJOY

MOCA 6

This portrait was created by Luca Cervini. I chose this portrait because it symbolizes love. This portrait was created with digital art, painted, drawn and collaged on the computer. Luca Cervini says his work is "sometimes ominous, sometimes sad". He is an emotional painter and that is what attracted me to this portrait.

his is my line rider how guy like it! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GN75E7LoDp4

Line Rider - HELP!!!!

I am having a very hard time using HyperCam and have been trying to post my Line Rider since this past Saturday. Could someone please email me with what they did? When I pull up HyperCam and I press record, the box goes away by itself and I can see it on my tool bar below but I cannot click on it to stop the recording. Oh yeah, do I need to create a YouTube account first before I actually get the link to upload or does it not matter? I check Albertus email several times throughout the day - PLEASE HELP ME. My last name is Lincoln when you look me up in the school directory. Thanks.

Grappa

Here's another one of my Grappa images. I really like the colors in this one. The bright yellow and orange look beautiful against the black background.

Grappa

Here's one of my Grappa images. I am having a lot of fun creating them. I like the effect that this one has where it looks like dots in some areas. It kind of reminds me of the solar system.

Man another excellent week of Moca. This week I chose something a little different than the previous weeks. I fascinate by Karl -Ludwig Leiter; he was an old hippie back in the 70’s in Germany. His artwork represent sex,, drug, nature and rock and roll. I believe he channeled his frustration in his artwork. He uses Apple computer, Photoshop, graphic tablet, and painter. Again, I can’t express how much I appreciate and respect the artwork on Moca each week.

Man another excellent week of Moca. This week I chose something a little different than the previous weeks. I fascinate by Karl -Ludwig Leiter; he was an old hippie back in the 70’s in Germany. His artwork represent sex,, drug, nature and rock and roll. I believe he channeled his frustration in his artwork. He uses Apple computer, Photoshop, graphic tablet, and painter. Again, I can’t express how much I appreciate and respect the artwork on Moca each week.

MOCA6

"Light Leaks" by Dennis Sibeijn
more located here: www.damnengine.net

Sibeijn is a part time audio/video designer for Technicolor Netherlands. He uses photos (which he takes himself) and hand-made textures to create composite images. Sibeijn takes pride in the fact that his images are one-of-a-kind and expresses explicit views about the use and re-use of "stock images":

"I often read replies like 'great use of stock', I want to make clear I don't use stock, every element in my work has been photographed/painted/modelled by me. Personally I think stock will limit your creative abilities because you're dependent on the vision of someone else, for some this may work but not for me. It can take quite some effort and time to get the right shots for the right work."

click here for an interview with Dennis Sibeijn.

MOCA Week 7

I really like the work of Luca Cervini that I found on MOCA this week. I think the colors that he uses are really beautiful, especially his piece "Love." He was born in Italy in 1983, which means he is about my age. That is inspirational to me that he is doing such great work and he is as young as I am. Cervini got his diploma in graphics in Milan in 2003. His digital art is sympolist-surreal, painted and drawn and then collaged together together on the computer. It's very interesting that he uses so many different mediums and mixes them together.

Line Rider

Here is the link to my video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4vtuX_YzkRI. This assignment was indeed time consuming and once I got the hang of it I thought I did okay. I had technical difficulties in trying to do a screen capture of the video in hyper cam. Hope you like it anyway.

Line Rider

Here's the link to my Line Rider video www.youtube.com/watch?v=oH5bidasLys. Hopefully it works and you guys enjoy it. It took me a veerrry long time to create.

Claude McCoy is a digital artist who works within the genre of algorithmic generated abstract art. Claude states all his work is a product of “examining multitudes of iterations they can produce until the "keeper" image appears.” Considering the computer provides the image, the artist must be the critic who allows the images into their gallery. McCoy uses common mathematical programs and occasionally adds digital photography to the images. I liked the images in his portfolio because it further explored the possibilities of mathematically generated images in addition to our fractal projects.

Ultra Fractal

MOCA - Week 6

This week I chose artist Sebastian Marquez who lives in Stockholm Sweden. Here are four of his pixel paintings all painted with the help of a pressure-sensitive pen which he has mastered and the graphic program Painter and Paint Shop Pro. He has been painting with pixels for 14 years and studied art in Barcelona. I clicked on his website and found many more beautiful 3D paintings with Max, Poser, and Painter. He does a lot of nudes and from what I saw, and he distorts some of the faces and body parts on lots of his pictures. I chose a couple of nudes that did not show too much as not to offend anyone, but then again, this is art. Another picture is of a disco dance with many couples having a good time and of a "nude" lady in waiting at a table looking out the window which fascinated me. His work is considered impressionistic with exuberance of color and form. And, I agree.

MOCA Week 6

This week I chose the artwork of Amichai Shavit. Amichai was born in Palistine in 1935, studied in the US from 1955 to 1961, then returned to Israel to receive a degree in business management. He taught at Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem Universities on the subjects of technology and contemporary art in the departmenst of philosophy and art education, and later became a general director of the Haifa Museum and VP of Israel's Art Endowment Fund. His art has been widely shown in Israeli museums and galleries, and he has represented Israel in biennieals internationally. He largely works in Strata Pro and Photoshop. I like this piece because of the feeling it gives me - clear, crisp circles, cones, cylinders, squares, pyramids - I see diversity coming together as one.