Graphic art is something I do when I'm bored. I'm not bored often; between work and writing projects, I have plenty to do normally.
The past couple of days had me inspired to post a few of the things I've done. Almost everything I do is taken from photographs - I re-work them, alter the colors and the histograms, make them more than they were to begin with. Sometimes it takes many layers to create something new - 'The Night Is Young' took twelve different layers, if I remember correctly. 'The Spire' took only one.
Usually, I'll look at a photo and something will come to me. An alternate view of the same picture. I'll take that photo and try my best to change it to something as close to that image in my head as I can.
'The Capitol in Oil' was an exception. That graphic is slated for a new blog I'll start sometime into the future, when trips to DC make themselves more readily available. I wanted something light-colored that looked more artistic than photographical.
In any case, I plan to do more artwork as time permits. If I happen to find more I've squirreled away (I have a 5,000-odd image collection on the hard drive, usually used for artwork for other people's web sites, and sometimes things I've made get lost in the shuffle), I'll be sure to post them.
