I made this set of my creepy and pretty Victorian animals for Fall YART 2022. I’ve still got some of them available in my Etsy store as 4×6 prints drawn on and signed in metallic copper ink, and also in a digital Valentine/Print set. And otherwise, as with all my creations, they are also up in my Redbubble and Teepublic shops.
Series 1 is here and Spring YART 2023 is coming up just around the corner, on Saturday April 22nd!!
I made these guys for Spring YART 2022. I’ve got a few of them left up in my Etsy shop as 4×6 prints signed and drawn on with metallic copper ink, and otherwise as with all of my creations, you can always find ’em on my Teepublic and Redbubble shops.
In the meantime, SPRING YART 2023 is just around the corner!!!
In this post I declared my intentions to start uploading a ton of simple designs to my print on demand sites in the year 2022. After the explosion of AI generated images, I already can’t believe that I once wrote that I worried about the ethics of manipulating stock art that I bought the rights to use…what a difference a year makes.
Anyway… I managed to cram a total of 200+ designs into my two most frequently used print-on-demand stores before the year ended, and have been doing my best to shove more in as we enter 2023. So the question becomes: did it help?
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Over the course of 2018 I’ve done many internals for Pelgrane Press! Below are the ones that have been released so far for me to show you guys. Continue reading
Here’s identity work I did for the musician Hexecho!
His music is very cool techno/trippy gamer stuff that really builds an atmosphere and puts you in it, so I strove to make each hexagon “its own little world” as Hexecho put it upon receiving the work. Continue reading
Tonight at an art reception I was very rightly advised to offer my digital art in limited editions. I’ve been sounded on the issue many times before, and I recently had fun offering a limited run of painted archival prints for Kickstarter’s make100 promotion. So why don’t I do this regularly? Continue reading
I’m honored to be in a show with two other awesome digital artists, Jenna Citrus and Jan Frick Thompson, at UE’s Krannert Gallery.
Show runs from April 1-May 6 with a reception on Thursday, April 20th at 5:30pm. Come see us there!
Here’s images from the online article and a full shot of the physical newspaper article.
Robot Mermaid was featured in this article where I was initially credited as Heather Landrey AKA Sandpaperdais (in case you came here from a search). I’ll update on here when my name/handle get updated, but in any case I was very happy to be included with all these awesome artists in what has turned out to be a truly amazing art show. The show closes this Saturday, so head on down to New Harmony Art Gallery if you get the chance!
As the article explains, my Robot Mermaid was created from fractals. I love the idea of math creating artistic forms, and math seemed the obvious approach for robot art since robots rely so heavily upon math to be designed and created and then go on to perform functions. In this case the fractals form speakers that the mermaid uses to project her enticing song and lure sailors.
The canvas from this show has found a new home, but anyone wishing to have their own Robot Mermaid can email me at sandpaperdaisy@gmail.com and I’ll get you set up with your own canvas or matte paper archival print!
This piece was created for the DERELICTE group show put on by the Arts Council of Doom, October 2015. I took many different shots of broken glass cups and a broken Christmas ornament and combined them to form this image of a ragged rose.
Banner for an old website idea I had. Back then I liked to make interesting images by layering many different photoshop brushes and continuously erasing parts, merging, and continuing to develop it until I liked the end result. The glass panes in Nascent were made using this technique. I need to do more of that, it’s really fun!
This creepy little guy took an Honorable Mention at Digitized 2006 and finally sold at my solo show God From the Machine 2013, where it ended up getting a lot more attention. Many people assumed it was new work, when in fact it hadn’t been seen anywhere for years after dropping out of sight in 2006. It just goes to show you, never give up on a piece of art you have faith in!
As promised, here’s some images from Wilke‘s January 2014 solo show at PG Gallery and Cafe, “All is ‘Naut.” It was a hum-dinger of a show, wildly successful and enjoyed by all! (I thought the Tang was an especially nice touch and guzzled my fair share.) The overall whimsical and satirical tone of the subject matter was a good compliment to the bright, cheerful colors and clean lines of the ‘nauts. I would be surprised if any of these gems are left unsold at the time of this post. However, Wilke is another digital artist like myself so don’t hesitate to ask him about a re-print. It’s one of the great things about the medium!
To see more ‘Naut goodness, check out Wilke’s tumblr page here: http://drxwilke.tumblr.com/
Possibly my most successful photo-manipulation and also one of the simplest concepts I’ve done: a fantasy forest that is unending, no sky but only graceful trees above and below. As with everything else I posted this week, this will be at both Art in the Wild Saturday and the Earth Day Art Crawl on the 19th.
Endless Forest is now available on Society6||Redbubble.
Photo credits:
http://carro-stalk.deviantart.com/
http://umbradenoapte-stock.deviantart.com/
This painting of a jellyfish/bomb was responsible for creating one of my favorite customers of all time, a little boy no more than ten and probably not so old as that. He and his sister admired the different digital paintings at my table at Evillecon 2011 and their mother told them that they could each buy a print if they wished. The little boy considered long and gravely and then asked me the meaning of Atomic Jazz. I explained pretty clumsily, how the city is meant to be dull and drab but suddenly, this impossible amazing thing has happened, and this great creature of color and vitality has descended upon it to shake up all the people in the city.
Wide-eyed, he said “So they jellyfish didn’t come to destroy the city…but to transform it??” I couldn’t believe my ears and I felt no end of amazement at this sweet child and his marvelous insight. He asked his mother if he could buy Atomic Jazz and receiving her assent, handed me the money with trembling hands and asked if it was really okay for him to have it and take it home. Aside from my own boys I can’t remember the last time a child touched me so deeply! Wherever you are, young man, you will always be one of my best memories!
Atomic Jazz is on Society6||Redbubble.
And now I am curious: have any of you been deeply touched by a customer, artistic or otherwise?
Made in late 2013, this was a HUGE piece in my last solo show. As I made it I was thinking of some kind of impossible reactor core, superheated on one side and supercooled on the other, a little like the thing that held Akira.
Available as a print from my Society6.
Made this at the very beginning of 2013 for a contest. I didn’t win the contest but as sometimes happens, making and showing this piece led to a lot of other opportunities. I did an inversion of it called “Toxic Angel” for my December 2013 solo show. I’ll update with that piece another day!
Now a piece in my Society6 shop.
This piece featured recently in my November 2013 solo show as a collage with added thread and bead elements augmenting the tentacles. I may make more little collage pieces from it for the upcoming April 5th Art in the Wild show at Wesselman’s Nature Center in Evansville, IN.
I did this piece of the Ha-Adam for a 2013 show on collective mythmaking at PG Gallery in Evansville. It depicts a variation on the Jewish origin legend where “the Adam” was originally a person composed of a man and woman back to back, which would be split into Adam and Lilith.
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