Cracked and Peeling Paint
I love it when paint cracks and peels away. Decay is such a thing of beauty. Peeling paint on the ancient door of a Tudor house in Copenhagen, Denmark. Rusty wall […]
Category Archives: Abstracts
Delicate Agaves Azules, Blue Agave
Let’s face it, Agaves are not particularly delicate-looking plants. But despite their solid fleshy forms and often serrated edges, their colours are soft and delicate.Which brings me to this Agave […]
Wave Abstracts from the Weathered Hulls of Boats
The painted hulls of the Swedish and Irish boats have been weathered into ocean-like abstracts of frothy waves crashing White caps out in the ocean.Breaking waves tossing white froth up […]
Metal Staircases Run Through the Photo App Stackables
In last week’s ‘Fine Art Monochrome’ challenge I was tempted to use this unedited image of a metal staircase in the Bridgeport Brewing Company down in Portland. But I decided […]
Rusty Textures on Canada’s Wet Coast
Lots of rusty textures available on Canada’s Wet, oops West, Coast. First off some appropriately rusty ‘rain’ scenes. Walkers out in a sprinkling of rust. Rust about town… A couple of […]
Cosmic Challenge: Textures from Mexico’s Walls
Some textures, mostly of plaster walls, from Mexico. Puebla. San Angel. Puerto Vallarta. The colours of this crumbling adobe and plaster wall would make a great backdrop to my Guadalajarian-style pottery. This […]
Circles A-Go-Go, a Polka Dot Abstract
Who doesn’t love arrays of circles arranged in a polka dot pattern. This is the original polka dot sculpture in Bilbao, Spain, cheerful but slightly grimy.This is the sculpture brightened […]
Two Types of Texture: Tactile and Visual
I’ve been thinking about the nature of tactile texture versus visual texture. Tactile is texture that draws your hand out to touch an object – it can be rough as […]
Folded Paper Paintings
The assignment was to think about what we did with paper and then construct an artwork of it. For me, as a commercial artist, one of my favourite things to […]
Photoshopping Winter Trees
For the ‘Out of this World’ photo challenge I have decided to do some transform the ordinary into something else. Driving home on the Hwy 5 seeing how the snow had […]
