The recent direction change for me from painter to Photoshop-user was a drastic one, but as it has evolved I have been able to adapt my painting style to the computer. This is not to say that the computer does it all for me -- quite the contrary. My work is still quite labor-intensive, as the reader can soon distinguish.
Whereas before, I used several of my own photographs amassed from my own traveling experiences as inspiration for my montage-like paintings, I now incorporate several of my photographs into my montage-like . . . well, uh, montages.
The first step is to resize some of the photographs so that they seem to complement and compliment each other to fit together cohesively – some even upside-down. I then eliminate the straight edges of the images so the separate photographs seem to appear as one complex entity, and this takes hours. The edge of one is blended into another so that the original separations are indistinguishable. This manipulation is done via a photo-imaging software called Adobe Photoshop. But again, this is not done automatically; every group of pixels is handled individually.
Next come the most time-consuming of all phases: my signature dotting. The dot patterns I developed with my paintings have set me apart from other artists, and that uniqueness is carried to this medium --- one mouse-click at a time!
Since the final work has been designed through a computer-generated program it can be printed as a photograph, albeit, a highly manipulated one, but still a photograph, thereby making the cost more affordable than a one-of-a-kind painting, but just as unique.
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