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These are images I made using Paint, the drawing program that comes with Windows, and converted to GIF or JPEG using Display for viewing online. You have already seen some of my Paint art throughout the site on the titles and the little back arrow at the bottom of the pages (you did notice the little purple arrow, right?)

My first dabblings in paint often used the Pencil tool to make my drawings pixel by pixel. Most of the drawings were stuff like the Lego vehicles I had made at the time. Do you recognize any of them from the pictures? Eventually that became too tedious for me to attempt for much longer, especially after I learned more about how to use the program and how improve the methods for things I used to do.
The use of the color invert tool and the color replace tools allowed for interesting patterns to form. It allowed me to experiment with more unusual kinds of designs including using color addition to give the illusion of transparency and changing only individual colors using the color replace tool.

Some of the things I like making are backgrounds. These images are meant to be tiled for the most effect. Unfortunately, not all of my backgrounds are good for web pages, but I think they look pretty good.
To make patterns and backgrounds I also like constructing palettes that can be cropped, stretched and placed behind other works to create gradients and shading effects. Although these drawings may be utilitarian in purpose, I think they can play an important role in this form of art.

(JPEG version) (Original bitmap)

Also on the side of construction, I thought I could create bitmapped versions of some common Lego pieces. The really cool thing about this is that I can have as many of these as I want.. of course, the selection of parts is limited by my ability to draw them and will probably never reach the selection offered by LEGO.
Finally, more and more of my work has involved layering many Paint images over each other, using the color replace tool to recolor the new pieces as they are placed on the final image. In this one, the fill colors of the shards were in the background color. When the piece was placed in the correct location, I added a shade of purple to all of the other colors inside the shape. Repeating this effect over several shapes gives the final image that mysterious glow.

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