Certainty
I call this one certainty because of the way the eye interacts with it. Try it: how long can your eye stay in the calm and light of the center before it's drawn into the chaos all around? In my experience, a temporary feeling of certainty is achievable through compulsions, but it's always temporary. There's always chaos again, until one stops seeking certainty at all.
More about thisADHD Energy
This piece emerged organically and energetically using the blending modes in Adobe Illustrator. I feel it captures the energy and excitement that's centered in my chest and flies all around when I'm pursuing a new project, spurred on by my ADHD. It connects to my value of Magic, where I am the fulcrum by which things become more than they are. It is one of my favorite ways to be.
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 thisGeometric Hummingbird
Before this assignment, I thought art was something I couldn't do. Much to my surprise, it received a lot of positive feedback from my class, and my life has been different ever since.
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 thisContemplative Quill
My sweetest cat, Quill, was a wonderful and cooperative model for the photo shoot for this one. This was the first piece I made consciously using Bezier curves, with the pen tool in Adobe Illustrator.
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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This piece was made during an OCD support group based on the poem by Rumi, "Zero Circle."
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