Homage to Warhol

Warhol

I went to an old portrait PNG file for this one (Another Three Quarter Face, Mar 08). I layered some colors and made the lines with the eraser. It reminds me of Andy Warhol's silkscreens.

Distrub: A Different Direction in ArtRage

Disturb


Disturb With Close Up Lips

I decided to leave portraiture behind tonight and brought back the lips from last winter (Feb and Mar 08). (I found that I had made a stencil of the lips and saved it.) The initial ArtRage is done in grays, but I added some transparent color in multiple layers and resized it for the second one. The area above the dominant lower lips was a bit too messy for me, so I added another layer and smoothed out some whites with "stitching" on top. The lines are just the roller feature with one click of the mouse for each stitch.

More Women

Woman Version 2


Woman Version 3

I added some background to the woman that I worked on earlier tonight. Version 3 is more defined compositionally and looks iconic while version 2 is more "windswept" -- less defined in terms of specific space.

Woman Simplified

Woman

I simplified the image of the woman by erasing out much of the hair and edge of her shoulder. She looks like she has a scarf on her head instead. I also corrected some of the bone structure of her face and opened up her eye by erasing out her upper lid and adding the whites of her eye. She looks like she is thinking of something. I am not sure how she feels about it. I don't think she knows herself yet.

Plain Face No Butterflies

Plain Woman

Tried another face tonight and liked the plain, grayish-green background with it. I tried a bunch of other stuff, but this one just wanted to stay simple.

Another Butterfly ArtRage

Hat and Collar

Here I have taken the image of the woman and added a butterfly hat and collar. She looks better with the dark around the face. I like the negative shapes made by the wings too.

Butterfly Hair

Butterfly Hair

I made a few changes to the butterfly for this ArtRage. I used the same altered face from yesterday but made the butterfly larger. The butterfly blends into a layer of black and looks like the wings of the butterfly are part of her hair. The white areas around her head add needed contrast.

New Butterfly Face

Three Butterflies Yellow


Three Butterflies Purple

I took another face from the Internet, altered it, and added a different butterfly image. I decided to use the three images together to make a better composition. I wanted the whole face and couldn't get it it to have nice negative shapes -- so I made multiples.

Butterfly Team

Butterfly Team

This ArtRage uses the combined faces and butterfly in a softer background. I layered the face imports so the wings were blended into the softer background. The team name comes from the swimming cap look that the two faces have. One on the red team and the other on the blue.

Butterfly Collection

Butterfly Collection

Tried another one tonight. Did this one on a very dark background. I duplicated the layer of the two faces and the blue butterfly and slid it out to the edge. I then duplicated that layer and flipped it horizontally. Not sure I like this one (the faces seem too high), but I like the brown colors of the face with the blues of the wings.

Many Butterflies

Butterfly Combo


Butterfly Green


Butterfly Fade


Butterfly Silk

I decided to push this butterfly theme a bit more by adding a butterfly image from the web to my two overlapped faces. I used past background ArtRage images and added the butterfly and faces in layers. I erased out parts of the face to show the wings more in "Butterfly Silk."

Butterfly

Butterfly

I put two faces together to make a butterfly shape. The red blotches remind me a bit of an earlier lips piece called "Pops" (Surreal Lips, Feb 08). Again, I thought that I was done with this face. I will be done with it when I am done.

Fury

Fury

I thought I was done with this face, but I am posting yet another. This background was initially done with the darker reds etc. on the bottom. When I added the face, I transposed the background layer and flipped it vertically. The red looks like flowing hair.

Still More Faces

Face with Creature


Creature


Pink Tartan


Combo


Combo 2

Still playing with the face in profile. The "Creature" background is an abstract drawing-painting that I worked on tonight. I didn't plan for it to have the "face" added as a layer, but it ended up with one anyway. The black lines and the soft erased areas work with the lines and whites of the face.

"Pink Tartan" is a result of smearing around the colors and erasing out areas of the under layers. I don't see any of the original background showing in it. Not sure I even like this one. I don't use this blog as a place to put my best work, though. I see it as a place to post all of the stuff that I am working on at the time. What works is a decision for later -- if I ever put them on my website or print them for a show. For now...

"Combo" and Combo 2" are a combination of "Punk" from yesterday and "Pink Tartan." Not sure the hair works, but I like the dark red contrasting with the rest of the piece. In the second one, I smeared out the tube paint from the under layer with the palette knife.

Three Different Looks

Beaded Headdress


Punk


Blue Outline

Here are three faces that I worked on tonight. I didn't start new backgrounds; I just kept the faces and added and subtracted different paint effects. The first two use the paint tube similar to "Red" from yesterday. The third one is the light colored marker over paint for a semi-erased look.

Red

Red

I took a second try at the silk face here by smearing it and adding the red tube paint and a layer of white. I like the color of the skin next to the coral-red paint. I enjoy taking a digital piece and altering it while keeping the original intact on my hard drive.

Silk Face

Face on Silk

Face on Silk 2

Silk

This ArtRage background reminds me of a silk scarf. The green in the background is the gold paper found in the paper selection options in "tools" and "layers." Again, I used the paint and a lighter marker over the top to get the partially erased out look of the dark marks. Not sure I am happy with the placement of the face on the first one. The second try I kept the face in the center and flipped the background horizontally.

Blurred Face

Blur

Blur 2

Lots of layers in this one. Lots of transparencies, as well. I like the darker qualities of this face; I kept just the bridge of the nose and the lips at 100% to make those areas brighter. The rest fades in a blur.

The second version of this one is the same except the percentage of the transparencies are smaller. A dark background is also showing through more.

Anne Faces

Anne


Anne No


Anne Stripes

Trying another face. Took a photo and added black and white lines in ArtRage; smeared them around with the palette knife feature. Saved the layer as a PNG image. After opening into an existing background, I duplicated the layer and made the lower image a 50% transparency. The other upper face I kept at 100% but erased out everything but the features. The hair is on a separate layer from the face. ("Anne No" is saved as a jpg without the transparency layer showing.)

For "Anne Stripes" I merged the two face layers from "Anne," saved as a PNG, and imported into another background.

Gray Heart Face

Gray Heart Face


Gray Heart Background

Still using the profile from this past week as a layer. This time I added it to the yellow background with some gray shapes that resemble a heart. I imported the face as a layer then duplicated it. I made the first layer a 50% transparency and erased out much of the upper face layer. I like how the gray shape works with the erased out face. It repeats the contours of the cheekbone.

Black Stipe Face

Black Stripe Face


Background

Still using this face and combining it with different ArtRage backgrounds. This one has a bit of a camouflage feel to it. It starts to disappear into the background while the thick, black lines go through and around the face. So far, I like the green one that I did yesterday best.

Green Face

Green Face

Another one of these profiles added to a different background made with ArtRage. The holes in this face is more in line with the highlights of face.

More Faces

Dark Background


Face With Dark Background


Three Graces

Started with a new background that reminds me a bit of a Chinese landscape. I added the import from the face a did a couple of days ago. In "Three Graces" I duplicated the layers and erased out areas. I am not sure this one is working for me yet. I may try it again.

I get the textured areas in the background by applying paint and then using the marker over the top of the paint. (I use a light value for the marker.) It seems to create an interesting printmaking effect.

Two Faces

Two Faces

Another try with the face from yesterday. I made a sandy background and imported the image from yesterday. I erased out the background and used the image again on another layer with a 75% transparency.

Photo Face With ArtRage

Face

I used a face from the Internet and added a layer of black and white pencil and smeared it around with the pallet knife in ArtRage. It has been a while since I have done any art. I needed a break after working on my technology certificate and finishing out the school year. I plan on working more on incorporating photos into the paint software in the near future.

Lips The Movie

Lips

I created this video on a Mac in iMovie using Garageband music software. I also created the claymation portions of the video in Windows Movie Maker and saved them as avi files so I could incorporate them in iMovie.

The claymation lips are from my earlier ArtRage digital art (Surreal Lips, Feb 08; Three Lips With Sticks, April 08; and Stage Lips, Feb 08). I printed out the images without the lips and used Sculpy clay material for the black and white lips. To get the illusion of the lips on sticks standing up, I placed everything on a slanted board with the camera and tripod parallel to the image. I took about 200 pictures total for all three claymation sections.

The timing of the music I made in Garageband was just luck. I couldn't tell how long the various tracks were, so I just went by what sounded good. I am happy with it.

White Dog

White Dog


White Dog 2

I haven't spent too much time on ArtRage for a while. Played around tonight and made a little dog. Not sure if it will become part of a series or not, but I made a PNG layer file for future possible use.

Powder Blue Face

Powder Blue


Powder Blue Half Face

Playing around with an ArtRage abstract and added a couple of women's faces to it. The powder blue color is a top layer from the abstraction.

At first, the abstract work did not remind me of a face until I dropped the two faces into the different layers. Now I see a face even when there isn't one there. It reminds me of John Merrick wearing the sack on his head in the movie The Elephant Man.