Howard Faxon
“The Nocturnal Messenger” (digital painting/collage – 2017)
In the beginning I started combining elements of my photographs as a really quick sketch pad kind of thing. It’s quick in that the images are more completely developed and give a more complete idea of what a finished intaglio print might look like. It also aids enormously in breaking down the steps one might use in creating them. Intaglio requires a streamlining in terms of color passes through the press and an analysis of which colors might be combined in a single pass. The softwares at their simple level think in the same way that one thinks when producing a print in terms of layers and the ordering of layers. But, the vast majority of them remain as digital files to be printed as digital art. I still find it a fun exercise, or I must find it so, because I have made so many. I guess like most sketches many of them will not become handmade prints.
After all, this is a work of unique ideas with the reliability of creative ability accompanied by a long experience process.
Thanks for sharing this with us also!
Sure, it was my pleasure – thanks so much for saying ….
Cheers
This sorta reminds me of a psychopomp. Might have something to do with the spiderweb…
They are depicted as birds often (though often as great masses of birds) …
I hadn’t thought of it in this vain and now the title doesn’t help. Although psychopomps aren’t messengers so much; but, rather escorts to provide safe passage.
Hmmm, now it’s kind of ominous looking.
Cheers, now I’m thinking this one over …
Psychopomps always move souls from this world to another, but depending upon the culture they may also have other duties; messengers aren’t common but they aren’t rare either…
Anyway, I wasn’t suggesting this was a psychopomp or even should be one. Just mentioned that it reminded me of one. Nice piece regardless
I can see how it did remind you.
I’m not rethinking it that hard but I do wonder sometimes about random images made without thinking sometimes. After the fact so to speak. The phrase should really be, “What was I not thinking?”
Cheers.
“What was I not thinking?” I often struggle with being more mindful about the process as opposed to just letting the art happen. It’s a tough call…
Fantatsic work!
Thanks so much Ellie.
It’s a little disappointing to see it so small. I may have dumbed down the resolution a bit too much.
The photo looks Gothic and it’s stunning – the web seems to be lit by the setting sun.
Thanks very much!
Some of these type of images don’t really work too well at low resolution and the small size.
Not my most popular posts – the “dark” stuff.
Cheers!
I learned something new! Thanks for sharing this with us also!
Thanks. It’s funny, this is not such a popular post. Maybe it’s too dark or brooding.
Thanks so much for the feedback. Cheers!
So beauty post
Thank you very much Olga. Cheers!