Butterfly Extrapolated – digital painting/collage © 2017, 2019 Howard Faxon
It is very common when I work on digital images to add small elements to large pictures. It happens all the time – ‘adding in’ elements incessantly. This piece, “Butterfly Extrapolated”, was done the other way around. I started with the butterfly and ‘added out’ from there. Expanding on the butterfly was the only criteria.
There are several hours of tedious work in these digital paintings so why not have that work be mindless as well. No rules, no plan, no concepts, … just “butterfly”. I don’t do these in one sitting either. I work on one for a while, put it away, and get it out again several times before it’s finished. It’s almost like doodling; and. more fun and addicting than that Etch-A-Sketch I used to have. Anyway, I hope you enjoy this butterfly inspired freeform visual instant.
This is a digital painting/collage combining elements from my personal photographs (taken by me) with digital painting techniques. I rely on a long history in printmaking and graphic arts to guide the thought process and take me through the necessary steps to complete the final work.
I see you found a fractal filter. kudos on the misaligned butterfly…
Symmetry should always be broken somehow.
agreed, but not many know that
The design is just flipped on the x axis and then flipped on the y axis. Some stuff added on top in mirror fashion. Copy, paste, drag it to the other side and then these lines pop up and done.
Rather it’s 4 identical squares rotated around the center point.
Oh, it is one quarter of the design flipped on x, and then one half flipped on y.
Oh, there is no fractal filter. I used a ‘Mandala’ feature to reflect on an axis.
wow, I’ve seen kaleidoscope filters before but nothing like this
Amazing as always. Could not get the link to work.
Thank you Carol. … The link doesn’t work. While you are “creating” they can’t be tested. I tested it when it got to pending and it didn’t work. Probably I entered it wrong – some kind of typo. But now it can never be fixed. – https://glen-faxon.pixels.com/featured/butterfly-extrapolated-glen-faxon.html
But I can do that. Cheers! I need to go post a B&W just under the wire I hope.
it is like looking into the two eyes of the butterfly. wonderful imagery Howard Lots to unpack there…
Thanks, it is from the biggest section of the site I have to show them. It’s the section of stuff where I played for fun. There are two little snails in the bottom – the one thing I added in. Enjoy the weekend!