Alterations & Digital Collages

I make my living as a landscape designer -- and I love what I do. Designing for everyday people, and using the four elements in my designs, gives me great fulfillment and usually brings me joy.

Landscape design as a field, uses scientific knowledge and reasoning combined with creativity, intuitive judgment and an artistic eye. To keep my work fresh, I engage in many hours each month in my other artistic pursuits. Two of these are photography and mixed media collage. When our kids bought me a digital camera for my birthday several years ago, I discovered the power of taking my own photos to use in my collages. Now I use my own drawings, some of my real-life bits and scraps and pieces of stuff (scanned) and my digital photos to illustrate poems, my dreams, daydreams, and sometimes just thoughts that filter through my brain and heart like sunlight sifting down through a woodland canopy.

So, playing around with my digital paintings and collages has become as basic to my life as ... oh ... eating or sleeping.

I have tried to organize this set so there are some threads, however intuitive or subtle, running from one piece to the next. I also ordered the pieces so that the more complicated, or thought-out pieces are at the beginning and some of my pure-play, simpler pieces are at the end.

I'm one of those types who refuse to read the manual -- everything I've learned about Illustrator, Photoshop, etc ... I've pretty much learned on the fly by trial and error. There are more "errors" than successes, please leave me constructive critiques. Thank you.
Maureen

154 photos | 9,694 views

items are from between 05 Dec 2005 & 30 Jul 2008.