I didn't draw that eye, I swear it! I was just
morphing the colors and saw it there, very faint, and I increased
the contrast in that area until it became clearly visible.I didn't draw that eye, I swear it! I was just
morphing the colors and saw it there, very faint, and I increased
the contrast in that area until it became clearly visible.
This is a pretty steamy little heart. Unfortunately
it's got a big hole in it and it's bleeding. I'd fix it, but I
can't remember how I made it in the first place.
For
this picture, I decided to take advantage of the
screensavers and screen capture features that come with Windows.
I drew some basic rainbow stripes and used them as the texture of
the "3D Pipes" screensaver that comes with Windows '98
and the later versions of Windows '95, and I did a screen capture.
(If you have Windows '98, you can do a screen capture by pressing
"Print Screen" and then going into Windows Paint and
clicking "Paste.") Next, I used Windows Paint to erase
the background and to paste the rainbow pipes onto the original,
full-screen rainbow I had drawn. Then I just ran the whole thing
through the Windows '98 screensaver called "The '60s USA"
to get the spiral image. It doesn't have any deep meaning, and I
didn't design it for any particular purpose, but I do like the
way the pipes frame and merge into the spiral.
I guess this picture is basically just a three-dimensional
variation on the same theme as that last one. It's got the
rainbows, the pipe shape, and even a sort of spiral-like shape in
the middle. What I like most about this one, though, is that it
looks edible. It looks like one of those huge lollipops that look
like they'll last you until you're eighty but which I always
somehow manage to finish in one day. There's a local Sacramento
artist who does a lot of paintings of candy and I think he
influenced me in this picture. Unfortunately I can't remember his
name.
The picture on the left is another one I
did with the 3D Pipes screensaver. I did several screen captures
and pasted them on top of one another to get a denser
conglomeration of pipes than the screensaver can produce, and
then I simply selected a segment of the picture that I liked and
copied that section over four times, flipping it to different
angles each time, to get the symmetrical effect. Then I put it
into the 3D Maze screensaver and got the picture on the right,
which I like even better.
I see a sleeping woman in this picture and her head
is the sunrise. That's why I make pictures—so I can write
sentences like that one.
This next picture is yet another one in which I took
a section of 3D Pipes and made it symmetrical. This, however,
created a large hole in the center of the picture which demanded
to be filled. So I created a background by feeding a rainbow into
the '60s USA screensaver and pasting the pipes onto that. The
picture still seemed off-balance because of the absence of black
in the center, so I created the little black arrowheads just by
clicking the "fill" button a few times to highlight the
natural patterns created by the spiral.