Howard Faxon
Untitled 7/13/2019 – digital painting/collage – © 2019 – Howard Faxon
I realized today that when I started doing the abstract films everything got pushed aside. The films took over for months. The stuff I pushed aside was all the images I was working on at the time. A lot of it is pretty close to being finished. Maybe it is finished. I was digging through these and found some interesting new things.
This image is more abstract than surreal. It’s more of a color study than anything. Some of the familiar elements of my collages are there; but, they represent colors more than they represent things. The title is today’s date because I just dug it out – no one has seen this before. Well, I saw it … Thanks so much for stopping in.
It seem more surreal than plain abstract to me. Love the colors on this piece.
You are probably right because it has real things there in funny sizes. I have trouble classifying these things.
Thanks so much !
This looks like a 70’s album cover – really cool.
Early seventies – I can see that. Which seventies? It’s like there were two different ones.
I would say early 70’s because it looks psychadelic.
Thank goodness because about the time everyone ran off to the disco … well, we were raised on Marshall amp distortion (I’m a proud member of The Electric Church of Jimi Hendrix) and we had to continue underground rock and roll.
So exciting & bright abstract image, looks great, wish more something like that!!!
Thanks, I do have many of these type of things. There will be more.
Yeah , very true , never seen this before
If art is unique then that’s good I guess. You saw it first on Virily!
Intricate and complicated. What software do you sue?
I used only Pixelmator on this. I really just cut and paste things. (I paint some) The complexity is just building something and then cutting and reducing the size and pasting.
Like scissors and glue. There is time involved but I’m not doing anything complicated.
Thanks so much.
Very nice shades of blue in this one. Great contrast and overall nice job, as always.
I like his warm/cool color balance
Thanks Carol, Alex – If the color didn’t work this baby would be in big trouble. Like purged from the hard disc trouble. (ha, ha)
I don’t think this would work in greyscale… not enough contrast
but you’re using color with a light touch, shows maturity
Yeah probably. I”ll look at a monochrome.
There isn’t hardly anything there that didn’t start as a photograph though. When I say ‘paint’ I usually mean ‘smear photo’. I like this idea of strong color of similar values. You can’t suss it out the same. It’s not so obvious and maybe it shifts a little. I love noir style B&W and expressionistic stuff. I am an abstract artist – abstraction was my life; and, here I’m working with pictures and scissors. Step 1 – drag in photo Step 2 – smoosh photo …
That is really creative and amazing. The top half reminds me of the close-up of the face of a really big bug with two large colorful eyes.
I can see that kind of. The macros of dried plants …
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I find myself looking for things I am certain are not there.
Cheers. Sometimes I do put little things all over the place in these
That’s a beautiful collage. Love the blue colors.
Thanks.
With the symmetry these really are color studies for me. Compositionally they are not challenging.