All digital images can be printed 8″ X 10″ on fine paper.
Prints are $35.00 each
Price includes shipping for a single 8″ X 10″ print
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In 1995 I was sitting in a store we owned playing with Paint on Windows. I’d had no customers for quite a while. My husband came in, saw what I was doing, and was impressed. He bought me a small digital pad which had a pen mouse attached to it with a cord. It was like an Etch a Sketch, the kind we had as kids. This little pad was intended for children, and was called Art Dabbler. Later, Corel bought Art Dabbler, and the program became more sophisticated, and was called Painter. I started out with Painter 4, I think, then went to 5, 7 8, 10 and now 11. And, I graduated from the PC to the Mac. I found that painting on the computer was an amazing way to stretch my imagination because I could use any tool I wished, and if I made a mistake, I could delete the stroke just as one would delete a spelling mistake in a word document. In addition, I could put a layer on top of a painting I was working on, and if the layer didn’t work out, I could simply delete it leaving the original idea intact. When I tell people I paint on the computer, they decide I am scanning in photos and using the photos as a basis for creativity. While there is nothing wrong with this process, this is not what I do. I start with the blank screen as a fresh canvas, and with a mouse that looks like a ball point pen, and a much larger pressure sensitive tablet, I open my tool box, select a tool, and start to create a painting just as I would with paint. I usually start with a pencil tool, sketch out my idea, and then create the rest of the image with color. There are so many tools contained in the tool box, I rarely stay with one tool. I may move from pastel to water color to liquid ink, or blender, or rake or some other tool to add the effects I want. While I don’t usually frame my creations as fine art, I can. They work very well as designs for greeting cards.
There are several different styles of painting in this collection of digital art. There is everything here from the very realistic exemplified in Forest Shadows, to the very modern in Women in Red and Michael’s Guitar, because I really haven’t found a style of digital art that can convey all I wish to say with the art form. Blue Heron on Hauser is a painting from memory of the lake above which I live, and the heron that lives here. From Grapes to Wine is an example of what can be done for a greeting card or invitation. Dancing Earth’s Renewal has been published in WeMoon Date Book, an international datebook, calender, and art collection for women. Each image is an example of what can be done with digital painting, and is also the art form which most expressed what I wanted to say through the image.