Abstract Concrete Canvas Print

That is the question. Whether 'tis a nonrepresentational composition of random shapes and colors or whether it is photography of real and solid objects. Actually, you could call this a concrete abstract, being a composite of two pictures that I took a few years ago of a rundown abandoned building. I believe they are both still in my RB portfolio ... will have to check and will try to show them below. One was called Ruined Pink, and the other Concrete Bones, each one, I thought, was a poignant example of urban decay. However, as I seem to be my own best fan, nobody else was as captivated by these images as I was and they have just sat dormant for the past few years.

Recently, for some reason, I opened these two in HDRtist and decided to superimpose one on the other and, all of a sudden there was something that I thought might go somewhere.

Use coupon code SBNMFD thru October 31, 2013 for 15% off artist markup!!! Back home in Florida ten years now, after 30-plus years in a VA suburb of Washington, DC, I retired in 2002 after working for the federal government as a report editor also doing desktop publishing and graphic design. I have always loved all kinds of art, beginning when I was three with fingerpaint, which I found so much less restrictive than coloring books. I was a shutterbug as a child, with my Brownie box camera but, since getting my first digital camera, have been shooting anything and everything and digitally manipulating the images, often with surprising results. Sometimes, instead of modifying a photograph, I start from scratch, resulting in some of my...