Available at imagekind as posters and prints - http://www.imagekind.com/Stars-on-Main_art?IMID=eb21238f-4775-4270-ac5d-fcf3d3917eb8
Available at Red Bubble as prints, posters, cards and ipod/ipad covers and tee shirts - http://www.redbubble.com/people/mathan-a-danns/works/9739650-ladies-of-the-night
Available at imagekind… http://www.imagekind.com/Sans-Feuilles—Without-Leaves-art?IMID=c659507b-3130-43d3-bd21-f5ca349e9c7e
Available at imagekind… http://www.imagekind.com/The-Soul_art?IMID=ea08d2ae-8fe4-478a-bec9-c0da669f2f0a
(without photo overlay of course… :) )
Can we achieve peace by letting the other guy take the first step to the middle of the road?
Been a busy summer but have had a chance to at least put a few images up on Imagekind…
1. Early Bird
(http://www.imagekind.com/Early-Bird-art?IMID=4b77a8ec-8a5d-4de0-a564-a4127dcefa07)
2. Back Alleys
(http://www.imagekind.com/Back-Alleys_art?IMID=5de36664-d950-4e32-b4ea-d6e06033ae38)
3. Rise
(http://www.imagekind.com/Rise_art?IMID=da85b8ca-7913-4534-97a3-141bd3f44870)
4. Another World
(http://www.imagekind.com/Another-World_art?IMID=e4ee7c34-191f-4eac-9c0f-284cfa8ccebc)
It’s a funny name I expect, since most of my images tend to be on the lighter side, usually with a bit of a twist - to match my sense of humour I guess.
The ‘digital’ bit is self-explanatory. Anyone who knows me IRL, even those who wonder about the two pairs of glasses, will twig to the ‘twilight’ part.
I started seriously noodling with digital art in 1989, using a very early version of CorelDraw at work and hand-coding vector drawings in Basic at home (if you have ever done you know that it is a royal pain…). But after 22 years of pushing a mouse around a pad in Photoshop, GIMP and the rest I still love creating new images and exploring techniques and ideas. If I had my choice (and won the lottery!) I would love to spend the next 22 years teaching kids the ins and outs of digital art!
But a few years ago a funny thing happened at work.
I fell over turning a corner. *WHAM* And somehow in the falling I ‘popped-out’ my hip. Needless to say I was in a lot of pain but was able to make it back to my desk, where a really dear co-worker massaged some major knots out of my neck and back (it was work so I didn’t even ask for a hip massage!).
A few days later it happened again.
And then one day a couple weeks later I walked into a wall - and fell over.
Long story short my central nervous system was falling apart rapidly, signals coming in fine but commands to legs and arms getting lost in the shuffle.
I ended up at home for three years while the docs tried to figure it all out. Slowly things improved so that I didn’t need a cane to get around the house - I still carried it with me - and I had enough control of my left side to drive again (guess who bought a 5 speed just before this all happened!). It was all good, or reasonably functional facsimile.
And then one day I woke up and realized I was seeing in black and white. I freaked. I had had almost perfect vision only a few months before. And to someone who loves creating art it was damned scary! Eventually my colour vision came back but I still have days when the colours wash out during the day and days when it is all black and white. And my usually excellent night vision is going. So now I wear two pairs of glasses - distance and close up - because bifocals (I have a pair) have the lens too close together to work for me.
So this is my digital.twilight - still seeing the art inside and trying to express it the best way I can for as long as I can. If the colours seem a bit off sometimes on my art - my apologies.
Maybe tomorrow will be a better colour day…
Cheers!
Mark
I am finally getting a serious hankering to return to my art ‘roots’. Maybe I am just bored with manipulations or maybe deep down I am craving an easel and a bunch of squeezy tubes of paint… not sure…
Here are a couple of WIP’s I am playing with. They are a bit different from what I have been doing lately…
Title: Red Balloons
Title: Some Of My Favourite Things
The other things I have been noodling with again (I found an old hard drive full of vintage images!) are hand tinting old B+W’s. My paternal grandmother left behind quite a collection of hand tints she had done in the late teens and early 1920’s which have always fascinated me. Sadly, she died when my Dad was 11 so I never had the chance to meet her (my paternal grandfather died when I was about 6 months old so never met him either…) and all I know is that she was very creative. Would have loved to have known her… :)
Anyway here are a couple I did up for profile buttons on FB (Teeswater_Ca, Lift Flap and the Digital Twilight page if you would like to say hi or friend/like me…).
(Teeswater_Ca)
(Lift Flap)
(Digital Twilight)
Enjoy!
Mark
