Saturday 31 July 2010

Deconstructing midnight

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Never too far away from the abstracts, this is the first of a new series 'Ready-framed abstracts', all utilising post_crop on the final transform to produce the frame.

Friday 30 July 2010

Harry Haller's magic theatre

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Inspired by the hallucinatory denouement of Hermann Hesse's 'Steppenwolf'. Whilst the theatre is described as a horseshoe-shaped corridor with many doors, I've used artistic licence to depict a four-fold vision of an infinitely long straight corridor as the atmosphere felt perfect.

Thursday 29 July 2010

The I Ching arcade

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Divine personal change in a booth of your selection!

Monday 26 July 2010

Forest snitterfields

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From 'The Meaning of Liff':

SNITTER (n.)
One of the rather unfunny newspaper clippings pinned to an office wall, the humour of which is supposed to derive from the fact that the headline contains a name similar to that of one of the occupants to the office.

SNITTERBY (n.)
Someone who pins snitters (q.v.) on to snitterfields (q.v.) and is also suspected of being responsible for the extinction of virginstows (q.v.)

SNITTERFIELD (n.)
Office noticeboard on which snitters (q.v.),cards saying 'You don't have to be mad to work here, but if you are it helps !!!' and slightly smutty postcards from Ibiza get pinned up by snitterbies (q.v.)

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Sunday 25 July 2010

Wicker work

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A new twist for ngon-splits.

Thursday 22 July 2010

Glamour shoot

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Neon lights, neon lips, mirrors, angles, dark corners: a session in the studio.

Sunday 11 July 2010

Spectral analysis

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My entry for Apophysis Challenge #34, bipolar. I've been meaning to get back into these and finally have.

Blade

see 'Blade' at deviantART

Pure Apophysis using the Crop plugin to create the 'frame'. Its effect is subtly different from simply cropping and adding an artificial 1 px frame as the fractal appears to have smeared itself out against an invisible barrier.

#3 (and final) of "Alt flower" series

Saturday 10 July 2010

The sinew engine

see 'The sinew engine' at deviantART

A huge render, the better to appreciate the unique texture and colouring.

#2 of "Alt flower" series

A very digital flower

see 'A very digital flower' at deviantART

I'm rather enamoured of the effect of the blur-pixelize overlay. Full view essential.

#1 of "Alt flower" series

Friday 9 July 2010

The Sun remains the same

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Applying DC to the stained glass framework.

Confluence

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A coming-together of multiple flows.

Wednesday 7 July 2010

In a sentimental mood

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More DC experimentation, named after the Duke Ellington composition.

Sunday 4 July 2010

Adventures in Candyland

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Well, now that I'm here... A nice big render to get lost in :D

Saturday 3 July 2010

Last time I checked...

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Antarctic expedition

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First application of DC to the abstract style.

Friday 2 July 2010

The Pillars of Candyland

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For the sweet of tooth...

First contact

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"Hai! There's so much we want to tell you about yourselves..." Close encounters with gelatinous aliens in the oceans' abysmal trenches.

Thursday 1 July 2010

The dreams in the Witch House

see 'The dreams in the Witch House' at deviantART

Named after the Lovecraft story, of course, and created using the new 7X DC feature. This uses the latest blending version (7X.14), bringing the best of both worlds to bear and producing genuinely radical new colouring effects.