Digital Art Tonight

David Levinthal

I am fascinated by the work of photographer David Levinthal.  I have been thinking about how to set up my own little dioramas to take pictures of.  Today I experimented with some toys and some interesting backgrounds.  I’m pleased with the results!

A Painted Background

I finished a commission last night.  Paintings aren’t something I have been working on lately and it was fun to play with paint for a while.  Maybe I could make a painted background piece and then layer portraits on top of it?  Not a bad idea.  This is what I worked on tonight including the commission….

Something New?

I know why I want new images each night.  Because I have grown up in a culture where we are bombarded with imagery all the time.  Television, magazines, movies, and now the internet.  Obviously this is not a new concept that other artists haven’t explored over and over again, Warhol and Lichtenstein come to mind and there are scores of others.  I too want to find the ‘something new’ in each day.

More dollhouse furniture..

some vintage images

I want to make the ordinary extraordinary.

As an artist I fit all the stereotypes.  A sense of obsession.  A lens thru which I look at life every day.

I want to make the ordinary the extraordinary.

I learned something tonight….

In the end I love making drama.  I am working on a commission that involves non digital art.  So I painted.  And I find when I paint now its all about filling in a formula.  I don’t want to fill in a formula…..I want to make images that are provocative.

How I see things…

Images and textures oh my!

More playing with images and textures!