This series was created from a photo of a stump of petrified wood. This is actually the second series that I did from that same stump, but in this one I kept the colors more simplified and truer to the tones in the wood. The pareidolia in these is pretty extensive and that is also where some of the titles of the pieces came from, my own shapes that I saw in these random textures. You can see other variations that I’ve created from a single image in the variations tab on my site.
Maiden Grass | Master Webbing
My favorite grass is Mexican Feather Grass, so I had to use it for a piece of some kind. So this is what came out of my experiments with a photo of my favorite grass. :)
Maiden Grass | Fuchia Fabulosity
In this piece, I decided to revisit an older series of works and take the image to a very different place. I’ve been watching the show POSE on Netflix, so I may have been influenced by that in the title, but I used the Maiden Grass image and pushed the color, the layers and the textures further to arrive at what you see below.
Epiphyllum | Shadowflower Yellow
This piece was created from a photo of a flower that only blooms at night called Epiphyllum, or Queen of The Night. I have done many different works from these flowers as they have such in interesting shape and lend themselves to unlimited treatments. The flowers are typically white, so I wanted to take this piece in a completely different direction.
Chalice Flower | Golden Glow
I came across a fallen chalice flower in the greenhouse and was taken by its beauty even as a dead and dried fallen blossom. I thought it might work well for a base image for one of my works and ultimately it was a special photo to work with. Below is one of the variations that came out of my explorations.
Whale Bone
This series began as a photo of a carved whale bone in the Carnegie Museum of Natural History when I was visiting Pittsburgh. I loved the colors and textures in the photo and thought it would make for an interesting series of graphic, yet complex images.
Pegasus | Industrial Star
Believe it or not, this image started as a photo of the vintage and iconic Pegasus sign for Mobil gas stations. I appreciated the industrial nature of these signs that I remember growing up with all over. I decided to explore using this as a base for a piece and see where I could take that image through digital manipulation where it would have an industrial bent, but have no connection visually to that original image. This was the result.
Live Oak Sprig | Gem Star
There was a sprig of leaves that fell off of the Live Oak tree and I liked the shadows it made on the concrete driveway. I decided to take a photo and use it as the base for some digital experiments. I was pleased with the way this particular one turned out as it was so different from a color perspective of any other piece I’d worked on. It was subtle, yet magical in some way. It reminded me of a childlike world where pale colored gems were common, but there was a sophistication of sorts as well.
Moths | Cryptic Message
I captured a pair of white moths on our stucco walls and I really liked the simplicity of the moment captured. The shadows were subtle and I wondered what it might look like if I treat the image as I do in my work. Below is the result of that digital manipulation. It reminded me of some cryptic alien message that you see in some sci-fi movies, hence the title.
Immaculata | Renaissance Refinery
This piece was created from a photo of a bearded daylily called Immaculata. It was heavily filtered and digitally manipulated to arrive at this very complex final image. This image is also one of the images that I was working on for use in a tiled wallpaper that could be printed and used in a room through multiple custom wallpaper sites. The first of a new section of wallpapers on my site. Shown in a room mockup below the original tile.
Idan | Flower Power
In the same vein as my Sofia piece, Idan joined the photoshoot with wigs, hats, etc. ad I really liked this particular photo of him with the big fluffy monster hat. I decided to use this one and push the fun factor even further. As you may have noticed, I like layering with floral imagery and it was no different in this case.
Sofia | Platinum Floral
I hadn’t worked on portraits in a while, so I decided to shift gear and do a few. This is a photo that I took of my friend Sofia. We had a fun time taking photos with wigs and this particular photo had a bit of a 1970’s vibe to me, so I decided to use this one as my base. After lots of layering and digital manipulation, this was the resulting work.
Lillian's White Lies | Garden Goddess
Lillian's White Lies is one of my favorite white daylilies in our Moon Garden. The form of the flower has an elegance to it that presents as regal and is somewhat otherworldly. This particular photo was taken during a sun break on a cloudy day, which gave it a unique presence. Every time I see this bloom I always think of the word Goddess for some reason, likely because of it's charms that I mention, hence the title of the piece.
Fallen Orchid Blossoms | Blue Deep
This is a departure image from my series created from a photo of Fallen Orchid Blossoms. I decided to shift the background to a color that might give it another feeling or dimension from the original pieces in the series. The final color reminded me of the color of deep ocean water, hence the name.
Wooden Giraffes | Giraffe Games
I decided to use something other than a flower or leaf today as my base image, instead I used a cool little wooden sculpture of a pair of giraffes that I received as a beautiful gift from two new friends from the Ukraine, Vlas and Karina. I photographed it where we have it displayed and experimented with the image in Photoshop and this was the resulting piece:
