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 […]
Category Archives: Abstracts
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 […]
