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| Morphaeus | Goat | Somebody |
| Journey | Wizard II | Environment |
| Mutant | ||
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| Morphaeus | |
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Morphaeus is free-hand with my badger airbrush, using only black india ink and paper. The section in the upper-right is the original scan, with all other sections copied and layered with Adobe Photoshop. A full-view of the Mandelbrot fractal set is used to compliment the skull imagery. This is an enlarged detail of the middle section. |
| Goat | |
| An example of the technique of filling negative space with design instead of shading, taken to the extreme. The Goat has arms that grow from anywhere and exposed vertabrae and ribs. He uses his mind to force the creation of a glowing exposed muscle being. Our minds become one. Pen & ink on paper. Duality has been created from this drawing, using Photoshop and the wonderful stamp tool to fill in space with elements of the rest of the drawing. The technique is random, and though there is symmetry in the overall design, the blended sections are quite assymmetrical. | 
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| Somebody | |
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"It's just somebody elses' hallucination that your(sic) on drugs" is the message at the top of this conglomeration of psychedelia. Like Journey, the technique is too fill the space with images of whatever appeared during my trip. The text is mostly incomprehensible free-form prose written after coming down. |
| Journey | |
| I created Journey during episodes of a higher state of consciousness. Several scribbles were drawn over the page and areas filled in as I saw them appear on the paper. I used pen & ink first, then added colour with pastels to some areas with no particular scheme in mind. | 
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| Wizard II | |
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My wizards appear much more often to me as I "awake-dream" than the warriors, for they are the creators of the dream as my dreams are their creation. This one's power creates the scene all around him and creates him as well. There are many subtle levels of perspective along with the lack of negative space I have used so much lately. WIZ comes forth from the body of this wizard, filling space with random elements of opposite regions of the rest of the space. |
| Environment | |
| Environment is just pen & ink on paper, but there is still lots of colour visible because of the dyes in the ink of the different black pens used. The left side is lush and covered with vegetation, the right is barren and wasted. Look closely at a detail of the city. This is the effect of industrialization on this our fragile earth: as the pollution fills the river, a beast grows from it to destroy those who would tamper with her. | 
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| Mutant | |
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Mutant is the original drawing for a plaster-block print made in printmaking class. (My Aunt taught the class!) The original image was copied using a regular copy machine, placed over a pre-formed slab of white plaster, then covered with mineral spirits to transfer the ink to the plaster. Using various carving tools the white area was removed, and a run of 20 brown, 10 black and 5 red prints were hand-rolled and pressed before the plate was destroyed. |
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