The Tree Ogre

This piece, as well as A Wild Thing (R2) represent a somewhat new technique with my art. Although I have regularly incorporated photography into my professional graphic design work for years, I very rarely incorporate photos into my personal, non-commercial art (as seen at Gallery Bizarre). I have a feeling that is about to change. This piece is nearly finished but still needs some detail work.

The first time that I experimented with this type of artistic hybridization of media was with old Life magazine cutouts and my acrylic paintings during the late 80's and early 90's. However, now I am revisiting this idea in a whole new way via the concept of digital photo manipulation and mixed-media works with analog art. This is a really interesting idea to me and opens up a Pandora's box of possibilities. I am really excited to see where future works using these techniques will take me.