Work 00006 Void Words 1

Posted on 2014/07/15

Alex Hall

Void words for your void wall. Examine it very closely. For the unobservant it doubles as a merely nice painting! See http://s.earthbound.io/22 for archive, original, print and usage options. ~ A hoity-toity robot talks about this at http://s.earthbound.io/artgib — Work 00006 Void Words 1

[Formerly titled "Abstraction 00014." Post resurrected 11/26/2016]

Void words for your void wall. Examine it very closely. For the unobservant it doubles as a merely nice painting!

Thumbnail links to larger image, free for personal use. Print available here.

Crystal Spindle Haystack (work 00008)

Posted on 2014/07/15

Alex Hall

See http://s.earthbound.io/29 for original, print and usage. ~ This was accomplished by modeling and rendering translucent spindles colored by randomized wireframe color (using SoulBurn Scripts) in 3ds Max, randomly rotating them (also with ~ ), then severely bumping up the light and using it as a digital paint guide.~ Mock artist statement at http://s.earthbound.io/artgib — Crystal Spindle Haystack (work 00008)

This was accomplished by modeling and rendering translucent spindles colored by randomized wireframe color (using SoulBurn Scripts) in 3ds Max, randomly rotating them (also with SoulBurn scripts), then severely bumping up the light and using it as a paint guide.

Thumbnail links to large desktop image free for personal use. Print from higher resolution original (designed for 24" x 14") available here.

[11/28/2016: post resurrected. This work was previously entitled Abstraction 00015.]

SOL, SOL Detail, and EYE OF THE FROST DRAGON (Digital paintings, works 00007 and 00007B)

Posted on 2014/07/15

Alex Hall

[Post resurrected 11/26/2016]

SOL began as an experiment creating brush stroke-style particle effects. Tools used: 3ds Max, Painter, Photoshop. Digital oil, watercolor, and pencil. See http://s.earthbound.io/23 for archive, original, print and usage options. ~ A hoity-toity robot talks about this at http://s.earthbound.io/artgib — SOL (Work 00007)

SOL began as an experiment creating brush stroke-style particle effects in 3D Studio Max. I may eventually describe that and how it's done, but suffice it to say that the creation of this painting was very involved with 3D and 2D art tools (3ds Max, Painter, Photoshop). Digital oil, watercolor, and pencil. The brush stroke-style particles I developed for this may go a long way towards generating all kinds of awesome crazy abstract art.

Thumbnail links to large desktop resolution image, free for personal use. Full resolution print (designed for ~8' x 6' @ 150 dpi!) available at this link.

A crop of this makes for a sort of impressionist-abstract work in itself:

Detail of a larger image. SOL began as an experiment creating brush stroke-style particle effects. Tools used: 3ds Max, Painter, Photoshop. Digital oil, watercolor, and pencil. See http://s.earthbound.io/24 for archive, original, print and usage options. ~ A hoity-toity robot talks about this at http://s.earthbound.io/artgib — SOL (Detail, Work 00007)

This is a gestural workup based on a fractal flame which I bred myself. Look up fractal flames and the Electric Sheep screen saver–they are extremely cool. Specifically, it's from an alternation-style combination of electric sheep 202.11969 and 202.41223, which I thought happened to look something like a dragon eye, ergo the title. From a large render of a fractal flame blown up and auto-painted in Corel Painter, with further digital oil painting in layers by yours truly.

Thumbnail links to a large image, free for personal use. Full resolution print (designed for ~6' x 4' @150 dpi!) available at this link.

ZION IS FLED and work 00005 abstraction

Posted on 2014/06/29

Alex Hall

PROVO TEMPLE 2049. REMEMBER HOW YOU FELT. IF ONLY WE HADN'T WARPED BACK IN TIME. NOW WE GET TO SUFFER ALL OUR SINS ALL OVER AGAIN. IN ALL CAPS.

Thanks to Chris Bigelow's satire piece at The Sugar Beet for the funny concept.

Image links to 72dpi HD image for your desktop/whatever enjoyment. Print available (from higher resolution original) yonder.

Accidentally created by testing overpainting/cloning/painter brush (corel), from portion of ATONEMENT. See http://s.earthbound.io/1z for archive, original, print and usage options. ~ A hoity-toity robot talks about this at http://s.earthbound.io/artgib — Work 00005 abstraction

[11/25/2016 05:26:56 PM: This work was formerly titled abstraction 00011.]

This second work was accidentally produced by testing an overpainting/cloning/painter brush in Corel Painter X with a portion of another work entitled ATONEMENT. Image likewise links similarly to prior painting. Prints from larger resolution source also available yonder.

Work 00002 abstraction

Posted on 2014/06/24

Alex Hall

See http://s.earthbound.io/20 for archive, original, print and usage options. ~ A hoity-toity robot talks about this at http://s.earthbound.io/artgib — Work 00002 abstraction

[2016-11-10: this work was formerly titled "Abstraction ten." Image resurrected and restored to blog! Revived as back post!]

Click the image for a UHD version, free for personal use. Prints on demand from higher resolution sources are available at FineArtAmerica and ImageKind.

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Why four leading zeroes, and where are abstractions 0-9? The short answers are that maybe I've done abstract art before now, but I wouldn't necessarily post it on the web, and I expect to possibly make a four or five-digit number of abstract paintings in my lifetime. [Except now this is work 00001, because I've decided there's not always a clear line between abstract and representational in my work, and I'd rather number all my works, not just my ostensibly abstract work, and because I decided numbering starts with my published (if only self-published initially or finally) works at # 1. 2016-11-10 -RAH.] I'm also just ignoring the problem that my works could never number 6 digits, or if they do, the five-digit numbering scheme. If you are actually reading this, either I am dead and you were assigned this reading by a future art teacher–in which case I would encourage you not to let others decide for you what you must and must not like–or you are a very dear friend.]

This is the first that very well pleases me in this particular era of my view that I ever created anything abstract which I liked. Others I have been okay with. This took eight hours, and I could get that down to a process of one or two hours, and make anywhere from .5 to 10 or more of these per day (depending on scale or intent), and I intend to, and if I have some forty years of usefulness still ahead of me, maybe the math would work out to produce (as I said) a five-digit number of abstract paintings.

Um, yeah. See? Art. Artist. Have not done enough of this. Near to zero. (Except that ten is infinitely larger than zero, strictly). Will do more of this. Hecka lot more. With dedication, so many paintings is no sweat. You have no idea the fountains of color that have sprung before my mind's eye after painting this. Hearing the malcontent much? Me too. Little inner child artist is angry and sad that I never made so many of these. I'm paying attention, little child. He's also angry that people make a living selling prints of paintings ridiculously more simple than this to hospitals and hotels, while he (or rather, the grown-up version of him that holds him hostage) doesn't. Uh, where's my hotel sale? Going to look for it.

Snap! I forgot to sign this. Print will be signed. Unlimited mass-market editions. Hang this in every building on Earth, and say that you're sick of it, and yet I will rejoice that humanity overcame their inexplicable complacency with too much blankety-blank (literally!) beige, tan, white, or whatever. This argument holds also for Mr. Um . . . Mr. I Like Folksy Impressionist Buildings And Gardens That Happen to Reflect Light Like All Other Daytime Objects. Yeah. Him. I'm serious. Please. Put. Art. On. The walls in your buildings. Humanity. I rejoice in any wall that is not blank. Even if I happen not to like what's on it. I'm just glad that anyone decided they like any art, at all.