It’s been a while since I wrote one of my blogs. I’ve been busy living life, creating art, and learning/growing. I’ve been experimenting the past year or so on what more I can do with my images. I have realized that what gets my juices flowing is thinking about what I can do to a straight photographic image to take it to another level.
I started out by creating a line image from a photo. After I printed it, I would either paint or draw with ink on it.
Above, you can see the original photo, my line print, then I drew and painted on the line print. The last one is all digital manipulation. I took the same photo and used various techniques and “digital painting” to create a more complex image.
I keep coming back to this type of digital manipulation and creation with my images. Take a look at my new project I just uploaded called She Walks Within . In this series, I not only am taking my images of women and adding a more dramatic effect through digital manipulation, I am seeing my mother’s influence more and more in what I am creating.
I’m not surprised. When you grow up with art all around you and one of the most influential figures in your life, your mother, working side by side with you as you develop, it’s hard not to have that way of seeing the world inside me.
I can sometimes feel her guidance as I am working and am comforted to know she walks within me.
