Trees, once

The tree below is based on a photograph I took last fall.  I drew it with my digital drawing tablet. It's not really finished, but I got sick of working on it. So it's done. Maybe I'll work on it again one day.  But probably not. 

Once I decided it was "finished," I thought, "Whee! Now I can play with it!" So I made some mirror image and upside-down versions of the above image, and stitched them together to generate the below. It kind of looks like an evil praying mantis. Eek!

But why tile something only once?  And why limit yourself to the original colors?  (Maybe because the result might give you a seizure? Consider yourself warned.)

Behold my kaleidoscopic tree montage:

Sunday with Photoshop

Here is this week's drawing, made with a Wacom and Photoshop:

It came out pretty wild! I really love outlining things in black, so my drawings are fairly cartoonish. It reminded V. of the Twin Towers. I see a strange wedding cake topper. 

Once it was finished, I started applying a bunch of additional filters (other than the Joanna filter).

Here it is during a post-apocalyptic, radioactive night:

Here it is on Mars, way back when there was water there:

And here it is seen through the eyes of a poorly constructed android:

FIN

Hyde Park Picnic

One evening last August, these two ladies were sitting in Nichols park's last sunbeam. I (creepily) took a photo, but I was far away and it came out horribly. So, because the light was perfect, I decided to draw it with my oil-based sharpies. These markers are so much fun: I love the metallic gold, and the black is so very, very black. They are useful for drawing high-contrast, late afternoon light.

Shadowless

I have emerged from my den!

To celebrate, here is a drawing of some potted plants in Arizona. I drew this in December with ink and paper, and I added the colors today with Wacom and Photoshop. The sketchy signature is 100% Wacom.