I like
the picture on the left because it looks very abstract and yet
very real. It looks like the sort of thing I might come across in
a dream, a huge twenty-foot wheel of multicolored metal
presenting itself to be spun by anyone strong enough to spin it.
It looks large, thick, and heavy; you might have to climb it and
swing your whole weight from it just to move it an inch. But it
also looks like the sort of wheel where moving it an inch might
move the world miles.
I made this picture out of a black and white
photograph of white lace. I changed the shape a little and cut
off the parts I didn't want, and then I just colored it in. What
I like most about it is the way the texture of that bit in the
middle looks exactly like gold. I still haven't figured out how
to turn lead into gold, but turning lace into gold isn't a bad
start.
I made this one by cutting up and rearranging a
close-up photograph of green grass and then changing the colors.
I'm not quite sure I did the right thing with the colors, but I
love the composition.
This is a picture from August 2000, done with a
Photoshop plugin called Lacquer, made by Sandwater. The Sandwater
brand name is interestingly appropriate here, since I like to
think of this picture as a sand painting. It's one of my favorite
texture pictures.