Photo project.

Yesterday I said I was working on some photos I took of my dad. I started using GIMP 2 on my newer laptop and then this morning I remembered the photo editing site Phixr. I like Phixr because it has a lot of interesting filters to help mediocre photos. It also gives me ideas on what techniques I can use in my photo editing and as well as paintings.

So, this is one of the pictures I did using GIMP 2.

I put a blue overlay there….I liked this photo when I took it. And I’ll still work with it some more.

This next photo I did with Phixr.

I really liked how this turned out.  I think it tells more of a story and has a sense of atmosphere.

Photos and me.

I have a small collection of candid photos I took of my father. He doesn’t like having his photo taken but I ask and he concedes. I did the photos in an attempt to try to understand him better. He doesn’t always talk about what he is going through.  In any case, I’ve been trying to edit the photos (taken with the camera phone) and it has been interesting.

I haven’t done this kind of work in quite a while so nothing is looking right to me. I hope to have one I am happy with by this evening.

Monthly update

Hello Again!

Art is life. Art is boom. Live the Art.

These are all things Artists (successful Artists) say to those of us struggling in the muck of our creative juices and impulses. “If you aren’t living and breathing your art, then you are not a true Artists.” Unfortunately, in this economy, it is hard to “live and breathe”‘  that Art when you have bills to pay and be accountable too.  You don’t want to just do things for the money, but society is truly set up  to kill the creative spirit. That is how I’ve been feeling lately.

I don’t know if  I mentioned this before, but my mom had surgery recently. She is recovering..luckily my sister was able to take some time off to help. But for the past week, it has been me with both parents and it can get very frustrating and stressful. Considering my own back and stress issues….yeah.   Finding the energy and will to complete projects is difficult. Finding the time to really flesh all I want to flesh out is just vexing.

Below, is blast from the past. A vector graphic I called DJ Na-O. It has a lot of elements I enjoy. I like the colors a lot. It is like he is the DJ for spring or something or the DJ of the Dawn…LOL

DJ Na-O

Time for reflection….

Hello All,

I hope you are well.

I have been thinking about my life choices these days.  I try to avoid the voices of doubt around me, but they have been louder than usual.  In these economy, in this society, it is so hard to make a living as an artists. To live the art, to be the art, to breathe the art.  I sometimes wonder if it is worth it.

There is so much ugliness, so much pain in the world…I just want to create things that remind people of the beauty in the world. I want to create a space where people can escape the pain (if only for a little while.  It is hard to even be seen as artists as no one really thinks of being a creative professional a profession.  Boo to that.

by K. Brown 2013
Digital Painting

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Until next time,

~K

Splashes of Color

Digital Painting, 2013
by K. Brown

 

 

 

This is a free flowing concept painting of a single life. The painting was completed on January 17th and is digital media.

New works….Mid December

Hello!

Life is going. I’ve been doing more digital paintings. I am learning to enjoy it more. I still miss using watercolors and acrylics.  Digital painting is convenient  and less mess (no clean up). I am finding that my paintings a very “painterly” and almost sculptural in nature. Here are few of my latest works:

abstract painting by KBrown 2012

abstract painting by KBrown 2012

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I’m considering entering some art contest.  It is all part of having more confidence in my work.  I do have to say that my ideas and my aesthetics have become more refined. I’m willing to take more risks.

 

Until next time…thanks for stopping by.

~K

Art History and me

Hello!

I am happy to report that I have been painting a lot more. Well, I have been digital painting a lot more. I still feel strange calling that painting because I am not using actual paint (I know, I have issues) but I have doing some really nice and interesting things. I really like experimenting with light and color and shapes in ways that most  people cannot (or are not prepared to) relate with. I’m not a photo-realistic artist.  I am more of an abstract expressionist (if you had to put me in a category)…I think. Sometimes, my work looks more impressionist like. I work from a very internal, surreal, subconscious space. Almost dream-like… here is one piece I finished the other night:

Touching, 2012
Digital Painting
KBrown

I’ve also been editing some photos I took while still in Japan. I feel a little odd posting them after such a longtime. I think the distant between what I was going through at the time and now is helping me cope with  not doing all I wanted to there.  I tried not to take such “touristy” photos.  There are more photos I want to go through, but here is one I am particularly proud of. I did do some “digital” enhancing via photo filters, but not too much.

Hirosaki Castle, 2011
Aomori Japan

I will post more paintings and photos soon.

xoxo,

~K