Using a fractal art burner, I repurposed these donated cigar boxes as thank you gifts for anyone who donated $40 to Una Vida (www.una-vida.org) in the Spring of 2021. Offer still stands, just let me know you made a donation and I will make you one to pick up in Petaluma, Ca.
Using a fractal art burner and I repurposed these walnut harvesting boxes to learn how to utilize electricity and burning to mimic the effects that lightning might have when it strikes wood.
Using a fractal art burner and donated/repurposed cigar boxes, I created these as thank you gifts for anyone who donated $40 to Una Vida (www.una-vida.org) in the Spring of 2021. Offer still stands, just let me know you made a donation and I will make you one to pick up in Petaluma, CA.
Continuing my study of how to create softness and details with a medium that’s so much less soft and versatile than pencil and paper, I lifted this image from the famous National Geographic depiction of Afghan refugee Sgarbat Gula from 1985, when she was just 12 years old. Thirty years after the picture was taken, she was finally given a permanent home in Afghanistan.
This composition is totally ripped off from an Amnesty International poster – it was meant to be a study in how to use natural pigments (coffee) to create color. Much lighter from its original look, at least the smell of stale coffee has faded with the colors.
Modeled after the (award winning) photograph of the same name by Dorothy Leland, this portrait was more a study of how to create depth and detail on a grainy surface – do I use the grains or ignore them? (Some of each, it turns out). After Dorothy won an award for the photograph named “End of the World”, the community where this was taken was completely leveled in the 7.5 Thai Earthquake of 2018, making the title overwhelmingly eerie. Who knows if this spot exists today?