Digital Portraiture

As I mentioned in an earlier blog post I have started working with a Wacom pen and tablet set. I used Photoshop to create this art work. I would like you to check back periodically to see any new art work that I post.

The piece below is of one of the world's most well known personalities. Nelson Madiba Mandela. I am posting two versions of this art. One with the the colors of the African National Congress (ANC) flag colors. and one with some colors of my own. Become a patron of the arts at http://www.patreon.com/voiceof1



Below is the Mandela version with my colors. By my colors I mean colors that I picked for the art that I like.





Another well known figure is the Sixties civil rights activist Dr.Martin Luther King Jr. Dr. King's portrait was also created with the Wacom Intuos tablet and pen set and Photoshop.



Maya Angelou is an iconic figure in American culture and history who recently passed into the ages. I wanted to do a digital art piece that would be a tribute to her amazing life. Again I used the Wacom Intuos pen and tablet combo and Photoshop to create this art. I am just getting started with this type of art so check back with this blog to see updates. Click on the image for a better look at the images or to make a purchase. All images come in various sizes and numerous frame styles. Please click now.



Jimi Hendrix is certainly an iconic personality in the genre of rock and roll. From high school and afterwards too this guy continues to be one of my favorite musicians. In the genre not many compare to this guy.

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Abstract Art

I have some art to put here that is different from most of the art you've seen displayed on my art blog so far. I like all different types of art. Abstract art is very cool and is a way of expressing myself that is liberating. It goes beyond the bounds of realism.

Before I show the first piece of art I want to show this video. The video talks about a horrific chapter of slavery that I just recently found out about. The video is self-explanatory.

Mass Graves Remain in "The Devil's Punchbowl"

The name of the following piece of art is "A Well Developed Root System" and is an abstract piece of watercolor art that I actually painted even before I watched the above video. The irony about the video is that the soldiers mentioned in the video were not confederate soldiers but Union soldiers.



Misty mountains is a view of a mountain landscape on a day when there was a covering of mist. This is an abstract version.



The art below is another one of my abstracts that I just call Abstract 2. It is comprised of different elements in different sections of the art. I try not to get into the habit of explaining my art. It doesn't always work.You be the judge.



There are times when I work on a piece of art and I look at it again and again and some how it just doesn't look right so I put it down. I may come back to it weeks or months later and it just looks totally different.



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The art piece below is an abstract that was done using the computer. I call it Rain Drops. I use a Wacom pen, Photoshop, my laptop and Android tablet to create most of my digital art work. I recently was given an iPad Air as a gift and I am learning new ways to create digital art on that device as well. In a future blog posting I will be showing my digital portrait collection that is growing as I find the time to create more art pieces.



This is an other piece that I painted with acrylic paint. I call it only Abstract 1. I have more abstract art coming. I have abstract art that I will not be able to show at this times because they are very large format pieces and I am unable to scan them because they are so large. But look for paintings of my largeger paintings in a separate blog space.

The piece below and all of the work I show here is for sale and can be purchased by clicking on the image to go to my Fine Art site to see a larger version for a closeup or to make a purchase. You can also purchase the ar t as greeting cards and cellphone cases for iPhones and Samsung cellphone cases. Thank you for looking!