Monday Morning Art: Knobbly

This week our art is an acrylic painting that started out as a digital abstract. I was beginning to feel like I was in a bit of a rut doing the landscapes in recent weeks, even though I’m quite happy with them. I felt like veering off in a totally different direction this week.

I began with a photo I took at the Embassy Suites hotel in Lexington, which has a great atrium for getting weird photos, and I messed with the image, running it through geometric distortion filters, adding and subtracting colors, changing the contrast and doing other stuff to it.  Then I used that digital image as the basis for an acrylic painting on illustration board.

So, even though the finished painting is all acrylic-on-board, I still consider this a mixed media piece.

It was something that I thought might look cool with minimal effort after I got back from The Marx Toy Show on Sunday afternoon.

The name mildly amused me, so it got stuck with it.

If you want to see this image larger, click HERE.

Meanwhile, over in radioland, Monday beginning at 10 AM on The AIR,  we’re giving you a chance to catch up with Radio Free Charleston as we bring you a twenty-four-hour marathon of the eight most recent episodes of our flagship show, and then when it ends, you get a Brand-New episode, Tuesday at 10 AM. Isn’t that nifty?