![]() I do not create aluminum prints myself I must have them printed through a service. Details are crisp and there is a depth in the surface that accentuates the modeling I do with my artwork. The results are a vivid print, almost glowing with color. I choose to print my work on aluminum because it offers the closest thing I have seen to the back-lit glow of a screen. But when I print out my work on paper, even on super glossy paper, I lose the vibrancy that I see on my computer monitor. My pieces are created on a computer and must be printed for you to be able to hang them on your wall. Composition and shading are essential elements-and are completely within my control. I use the image as “paint” that I squeeze and tease through fantastical mirrors. I feel my pieces fall outside the bounds of traditional photography. I manipulate images using sophisticated computer software to the point where the image is no longer literal. They are not strictly paintings and I certainly don’t paint them on aluminum. I use “Digital Painting on Aluminum” to loosely describe my artworks. Categories Creating Artwork, Inspiration, Kaleidoscope Art Tags artist, Artmatic, balance, digital artist, Digital Arts: California, fractal, image software, inspiration, Judaic Art, Judaica, kaleidoscope, Karen Hochman Brown, layers, origin, psychedelic, symmetry, Synthetik Leave a comment When I discovered what using photographs did for my art, I ran forward with the idea and never looked back.Īt the moment, my series of photographic based, kaleidoscopic artwork numbers in excess of eighty. ![]() As an example, the piece shown here, Magen David – Jewel Tones, is made from four variations of the same Artmatic tree, each with different surface decoration. I had already been using Photoshop to alter what Artmatic generated–cutting up several images, layering and weaving them together to make new artworks. It was in early 2011 that I began using my photographs to create the stars. This means that in six years, I had created only 12 pieces like this, or enough for me to consider them a series. I wasn’t yet using photographs for the source. In 2010, I had enough of these images that I decided to put together my first calendar. These artworks were created entirely inside the computer. I was working with Judaic themes at the time and I experimented a lot with six-pointed symmetry to relate to the Magen David star that has been adopted as a symbol of the faith. It wasn’t until 2005 that I came across the small corner of the program that worked with center-based mirrors. So using the random button and pre-designed trees are good jumping-off points. There are hundreds of parameters (tiles) that can be strung together in different structures, or trees. There is no limit on the number of tiles that can be placed in the tree. Each tile has one to four sliders that can be adjusted. The program has a randomize button that is useful when learning the software. When I purchased Artmatic in 1999, I spent a lot of time working with fractals. I have another, completely different body of work that was created using Studio Artist, but I not going to talk about that at this time. The ones I rely on most are Synthetik Studio Artist and U&I Software’s Artmatic Designer, with the latter being the one mainly used in my kaleidoscopes. My curiosity led me to some pretty amazing programs that modify images by applying advanced mathematics to alter their original structure or to generate images from scratch. For example, I was using Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator from their inception. My background in graphic design got me well versed in image based software. But briefly, I love kaleidoscopes, geometry and unusual plant forms. As to my background, you can read about it in my About Page. There is no short answer, but I’ll try to address it here. Many people ask me how I started this series of kaleidoscopic artworks.
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