art - tm
portrait of Lena
The source photo is a webcam posted to dump.fm by Lena; this drawing was done in Paint (as in Microsoft). Am interested in the point where the self-portrait becomes a portrait and some third, fictional being comes into existence.
And no, this is not supposed to be Lena D*nham, the celebrity artist offspring of the moment. This is the interesting Lena.
vegetable stand
...is I guess what you'd call this. Based on a photo of some food stylist insanity that became a minor dump.fm meme.
The objective here was to try some old-school painting using the "improved," Windows 7, Paint program.
You can't blend worth a damn so the only way to build up any volume is with scratchy strokes where the slight transparency of the edges overlaps. In physical media it's probably analogous to the crosshatching with egg tempera glazes famously practiced by Paul Cadmus. The result is a little uncomfortably close to illustration for me (as opposed to "photorealism," if that term has any meaning when making a computer rendering eyeballing a photo).
surge molecule 2
Surge Molecule 2, 2013, photocopies, linen tape
13 1/8 X 10 1/2 inches
Installation view with Surge Molecule, 2012
At the rate I'm making these I'll be ready for a show of them in 10 years. But seriously, these are probably better for being a "back burner" project while I work on other things. I made #2 without having looked at #1 for several months and was surprised by the different set of rules I made for myself the second time (and also that it was more elaborate).
