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Kirk Mathew Gatzka
Pre-Raf #1
copyright Kirk Mathew Gatzka
Media: Digital Art
"Pre-Raf #1" is a romantic piece from 2 photographs taken by myself, along with a background filled with subtle colors and hints of elegance. The young lady is the beauty center of the piece. Using MetaCreation's (was Fractal Design) Expressions Demo I created a painterly background. This was the base for the composition. A color 35mm photograph of the inside main hall of the Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA - provided the architechtural elements which were added using Fauve's Matisse. The head and shoulders pose is a mirrored copy of a Pre-Raphealilte painting, But the actual head and shoulders is a 35mm photograph of my 17 year old daughter Dresden Larysa Gatzka (also an artist). A "royal banner" was added to the top of the frame for balance, the color saturation was boosted 33%. All these were done in Fauve's Matisse program. I am a 47 year old poet/artist. Some formal art training in a Community College, Sculpture and writing. Largely self taught. I have exhibited as early as 1969 at Summit Place Art show in Pontiac, Michigan, and also at the Lansing Art Gallery, Lansing, Michigan. I have been involved in computer art and photomontage since the early 1980's. I use scanned original images of pencil, pen and ink, watercolor, colored pencil, pastels, found objects and photography or video stills for the most part as basic material. Also I am always on the lookout for images that are universal in nature to add to my work. I believe that poetry should be illustrated whnever possible. My subjects and style vary greatly. I use my intuition and an attitude of playfullness in creating my work.
Malcom Black
Untitled, Abstract Thoughts notecard
copyright, Malcom Black
Media: Acrylic on Paper, 6 by 4
I feel that the purpose of my life is to develop my talents, and that by developing my talents to their fullest, I may catch a glimpse of theDivine. I am a musician, songwriter, music producer, graphic designer and artist. I manage my talents under the tradename Black M Enterprises and for the past six years my focus has been painting. As a painter my goal is not to render something in a representational manner, there are far better media to represent life, but to create something that takes me beyond my life experience. I paint improvisational abstracts in aquamedia on watercolor paper. For the most part I have studied watercolorists from the Edgar Whitney school; Frank Webb, Tony Couch, Zoltan Szabo...just to mention a few. I found that although I loved the transparency of watercolors, their delicate properties were too fussy for me. Acrylics are beautifully transparent, vibrant, permanent, and enable me to push aquamedia to the fullest. I usually paint using a limited palette of three to five carefully chosen colors. I employ a variety of techniques involving stamping, stenciling, spraying, spattering, and pouring; saving brush work until the end. Each painting is an evolution. How the painting evolves relies on the interaction between paint and paper, and my mood at the time. I paint in very thin transparent layers, up to 30 or more, allowing each layer to dry before the next layer is applied. I slowly build the color and value until the painting "jumps" off of the paper, creating a vision of color, contrast and texture from the blank white of the paper. This is quite a time consuming process and being impatient, I began painting 2 or 3 smaller paintings simultaneously. This in turn led to painting on blank watercolor notecards. This piece is one of my "Abstract Thoughts" notecards. I conceived Abstract Thoughts in an attempt to make my painted notecards available, and offer a unique alternative to mass produced notecards. I paint Abstract Thoughts in sets of six sharing colors and techniques. Although each painting is only 6" x 4", they each receive the individual attention my larger pieces do. I have recently ventured into the digital arena which has enabled me to present my art to a larger audience. I currently have samples of my notecards available for viewing, and I am in the process of photographing some of my larger pieces to prepare them for scanning.
Mark Cashman
Meant to Fly
copyright, Mark Cashman
Media: Digital Art
I have always believed that technology is a pure and
vibrant outgrowth of nature, and that the wonder it provides is only made possible through
the power of the rational mind. This image embodies that fundamental philosophy by merging
the figure of man and machine in a joyous and purposeful flight over a complex fractal
terrain. This image was created on a Commodore Amiga personal computer with a Picasso II
24 bit frame buffer using a variety of tools. The landscape was created from a DEM
(Digital Elevation Map) of the Grand Canyon using World Construction Set and the various
foliage and atmospheric features provided by that program. The figure is based on a
combination of Crestline Software’s Humanoid, and a DC-10 from the Syndesis 3D-ROM.
The image was rendered in Impulse’s Imagine ray tracer, while the jet exhausts were
painted in with semi-transparent color and blurring from TV Paint.
I have been an active artist for many years. One of my earliest memories is of sitting in
a small stand of bamboo, watching the sun stream shadows past me and over me. When I was a
teenager, I becamse fascinated by Surrealism, and particularly the work of Dali, Tanguy,
Magritte, and Matta. Later, I also enjoyed the work of Mati Klarwein (whose influence
perhaps shows in this work), the fantasy paintings of Frank Frazetta, and the
science-fiction paintings of John Berkey and Chris Foss. I studied for a year with
Hartford artist Clifton Greene, but am otherwise largely self-taught. I began with works
on paper with pencil (some of which can be seen at my website gallery). In the 1980s, I
purchased a Commodore Amiga computer - unique at the time among personal computers for its
ability to display images of up to 4096 colors; this began my venture into digital art
with such classic programs as Deluxe Paint, Spectra Paint, and 3D programs such as
Sculpt-Animate and Turbo Silver. I later was Adjunct Professor of Computer Graphics as Art
for undergraduates and graduate students at Springfield College in Springfield, MA. I am
currently Director of Software Development for a software company, and engage in art,
writing (currently working on my third science-fiction novel; the first two are available
on-line at my website), and rock climbing.
Max Corey
Hugs
copyright, Max Corey
Media: Colored Pencil On Hand Made Rag Paper, 16 by 20
This image won Juror's Award and Grand Prize in Art at the Alaska State Fair in 1991. I've been an artist for over thirty years. I have won many awards with my drawngs, paintings and sculptures. I carve ivory aircraft, draw with pencil and pastels, paint in oils, and build dioramas and models of museum-quality. I have built displays and diormamas for seven museums in Alaska, have artwork on permanent display at five of those museums and have sold prints and ivory aircraft all over the world.
E. Stanley Yost
Jody
copyright, E. Stanley Yost
Media: Oil On Canvass, 18 by 24
The painting you see here is of a young lady from West Virginia who won many beauty pagents throughout the state. It was painted in oil's and is on a 18x24 canvas. I guess here's where I talk about myself and all my accomplishments. Well your not going to hear much from me I probably couldn't even spell some of the words that "Artists" describe themselves with, and bragging is not what I do, I am simply a painter ( I think the term "Artist" is overused) that likes to paint. My best work was probably the parsonage at church that my father and I painted when I was a kid. My schooling was very simple, setting by lantern light with my father while he and I sketched on the back of used papers that I had brought home from school. He told me then that "if you want to paint then just paint, be your own teacher, technique is one thing, being your own person is another." I have always taken that to mean that someone can have someone to teach you what brushes you may need or canvas to buy, or how to mix your paints, but when it comes to applying it to the canvas or board, or the church parsonage for that matter, that it can't be taught, creating style and substance must come from your head and heart otherwise you might as well buy your teachers works because your style will emulate thiers.
