This was the first A Distant Soil painting published. A former client was against me painting my covers, so I did this one on my own incentive to prove my ability (you be the judge of whether or not I did!)
This portrait of Jason is now available in the Art Shop. (It is now SOLD! Thank you!)
The other day I had a very funny experience when a digital type asked me for one of my paintings in layers. And literally could not understand that there were no layers. Because it was a painting. On board. A real one.
And he asked, “Did you paint all those stars?”
Well, yeah, that’s how it was done. You painted all the stars.
PS: I’m experimenting with some new ads and placement. The site may look a little klunky for a few days. You have my apologies.
I had a huge crush on The Legion of Superheroes character Element Lad when I was a little girl, and you can tell Jason came out of that crush. This is the hairdo Mike Grell gave E-Lad when I first read the Legion. Jason eventually dumped this do, but every time I see this piece it cracks me up.
Re: Ad placement. My Treo 800w running WinMo 6.1 shows the background as bands of color (best) or as bitmapped textures, like a rug (worst).
(that’s the text background, not the cosmic background)
I have no idea what you mean by this.
Forget I said anything… Windows Mobile is screwy… I can’t get it to replicate the error the same way each time… the artwork posts fine, which is the important thing. I’ll let the Android or iPhone users post corrections.
you wonder if maybe he also wondered how Van Gogh painted all the stars without a computer? Sheesh.
My usual comeback to dumbness on that level is “yes, and Paul McCartney was in a band before WINGS” except that nowadays people don’t know who they are either :-/
Thanks, Torsten, I really appreciate the effort.
There’s the bit about his not understanding that as a Real Space painting it has no layers. But I’m also wondering why he wanted it in layers at all? Was he intending to lift your effects or something? (The question about painting all the stars makes me wonder about that.) Because that’s the only reason I can figure for wanting it in layers rather than a finished flattened piece. (Look at me, still the Photoshop novice throwing all these terms around like I really understand them! Heh.)
He wanted to alter the work to reuse for other than it’s original purpose (with my permission,) and could not figure out how to extract the foreground from the background. Because he did not realize the art was not in layers.
Kids these days.
Ah! But yeah…
I don’t know…. making something physical… there’s a particular satisfaction to me in the tactile physical object. Not to say that there isn’t an intellectual satisfaction in something created on the computer, there is that. But, for me, it is different than physical art.
I feel the same way. I am a better digital painter, but I prefer to paint by hand.