Artified Images

There was a time when creating art meant getting out the paints, pastels, colored pencils, watercolors, sketch pads, brushes, and everything else that came with them. I painted, I drew, and I experimented with different traditional mediums because I have always enjoyed taking something I could see and interpreting it in my own way. I still love that creative process. I have just found a new canvas. Today, technology allows me to do many of those same things without all the mess. I can take one of my own photographs and transform it using digital tools, much the same way I once used paint, pencils, pastels, or watercolors. I can experiment with texture, color, light, brushwork, mood, and style until the photograph becomes something entirely different. Sometimes the finished image resembles a painting. Sometimes it looks like an illustration, a drawing, or another artistic medium altogether. I suppose that is what happens when you are technically oriented and artsy at the same time. You find ways to bring those two worlds together. For me, Artified Images is where photography, art, and technology meet. I start with something I photographed, then use technology as my brushes, pencils, paints, and pastels to create something new. The tools may have changed over the years, but the reason I create has not. I simply love making art.