Autistic Monthly
This fictional magazine cover was made in Adobe Photoshop for a class assignment, at a time when I was becoming more firm in my Autistic identity. I would love it if such a magazine existed! Photo credit to fidget circle on Flickr.
More about thisPoppy and Bee
For this digital painting, I started with a photo I took at a local garden of a bee in a poppy in the middle of the day. The harder light lent simpler colors, but still enough to be interesting, plus the lovely spectral highlights on the bee's wings. To make the painting, I zoomed in until I was seeing individual pixels and then began a process of retexturing the image on a new layer using a colored pencil brush.
More about thisProtest at Pride
For this piece, I made a color stripe pattern based on the original Gilbert Baker pride flag, where each color had a meaning, before the colors were changed and cheapened for commercial appeal. A single woman holds these colors against a backdrop of the time I marched with Google for Pride.
More about thisOffice Meltdown
I believe this captures the feeling of a meltdown, when the demands of conformity in an office setting and the buzzing bright overhead lights become too much to bear and it feels like you're on fire.
More about thisDesert Aurora
This piece was made using basic selection tools and adjustment layers, which was what I knew how to do at the beginning of my class on Photoshop. I tried a few variations of what this should be, and ended up with this one.
More about thisCourtney Pen & Ink
This digital painting uses a pen & ink technique to portray my cat Courtney when she was feeling photogenic. To make it, I zoomed in and made the strokes where the fur was in my reference image of her. For the record, she is a lovely cat who will purr just from looking at you.
More about thisTowel
This piece was made in Photoshop based on a picture I took of a towel that was hanging on my bedroom door. To make it, I zoomed in and made strokes where the fibers of the towel were, with longer and more concentrated strokes where there is more shade.
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