Whilst looking through some old tutorial materials of Aaron Rutten I came across a video which involved colouring a line drawing of a Mandala. A Mandala is a circular figure representing the universe in Hindu and Buddhist symbolism. Inspired by the possibilities and liking the underlying meaning I’ve created some line art and… Read More »Basic Colour Flower Mandala
Following another tutorial I created this wooden cup. It was more straight forward than the cup with a handle – just a matter of extending a cylinder, wrapping an image around it and adjusting slightly. I used a strong lamp effect for the lighting.
This is my first attempt at creating something in a 3d modelling program – a simple cup. I am very excited about the possibilities of 3d modelling, anything seems possible! Following a tutorial, I created a 3d cylinder, and then handle, shaped them, attached the two, used some ‘material’ effects… Read More »Simple Cup
This is one of those pieces of artwork where the initial idea started off far too complex and I ended up with a final result looking very simple. The Chinese character means handsome/elegant or beautiful. I was originally going to use a picture of me in a suit and manipulate… Read More »Handsome
This is a black and white maze with the Chinese characters for maze in red. I have produced this as a tribute to the maze feature in Corel Painter which I recently discovered. Not sure I’ll be making much use of it in the future, but it’s fun to know… Read More »Maze
Aside from the three digital collages, this is my first creation after completing my recent project on thinking big. After the challenge of translating certain concepts into artworks, I have opted to design something simple. I wanted to build upon characters that I have already used to make longer words.… Read More »Deep Meditation
This is a digital collage of a few of the photos I took during my last trip to China. I have called it a smorgasbord but its just a collection. I played a lot of Mahjong and visited a lot of temple type park places which is why they feature.
This is a Chinese winter cityscape and is my second digital collage. This is made up of images I took visiting a city in North-eastern China. Its relatively near Shenyang but I forget the name. The characters on the snow-covered river translate into a warning about swimming in the river… Read More »Winter Cityscape
Using photo manipulation during my recent project started cogs whirring in my head about the possibilities and led me to start thinking more about the possibilities of digital collage. I downloaded Aaron Rutten‘s course on digital collage and took the first class. In the end, I didn’t create anything like what… Read More »Tomb of the Warrior
This is the tenth and final creation in my project on thinking big, inspired by the book by Richard Newton; The Little Book of Thinking Big. The project is to create ten pieces of artwork, one for each chapter in the book including the introduction, each representing a message relating to… Read More »Twang!
This is the ninth creation in my project on thinking big, inspired by the book by Richard Newton; The Little Book of Thinking Big. The project is to create ten pieces of artwork, one for each chapter in the book including the introduction, each representing a message relating to thinking big… Read More »Lightweight
This is the eighth creation in my project on thinking big, inspired by the book by Richard Newton; The Little Book of Thinking Big. The project is to create ten pieces of artwork, one for each chapter in the book including the introduction, each representing a message relating to thinking big… Read More »Tool