Digital Art

 

The other day, I began playing with creating digital art, digital collage.  Here are my most recent attempts......

 

Chaos

 

This piece has as its foundation a page from National Geographic that I used what I call the CitraSolv technique on.  Basically, I sprayed the page with CitraSolv, closed the magazine, and after about 15 minutes, opened it to see this!  I then placed it between 2 paper towels until is mostly dried, and then hung it on a clothes line I have in my studio for drying art until it was totally dry.  Altho this was intended to be used as background, I liked it so well, I only added the word "Chaos" to it and called it good.  Don't you just have days when you feel like this could very well be the illustration of that day?

 

True Love

 

For this piece, I found some free clip art vintage love letters and used one as the background.  I then found some rose images that look as if they were made of collaged papers.  To that, I added some vintage photos of my parents, who are the personification of a true love story.  This piece is in honor of their life-long love story.

Escape

 

A couple of months ago, we were in Jamaica.  I was thinking of the relaxing warmth there and the wonderful escape it was.  I again used a background page made from a National Geographic magazine with the CitraSolv technique.  I then placed one of my Jamaica photos, converted to a sketch in the piece.  I also placed another image that seems to be a woman and her children in the image in the lower left.  I left the word "Escape" visible - it was on the background page.    This piece just makes me want to sigh.....and.....relax.

 

Enjoy!