Electric Storm Canvas Print

This piece began as a photograph of lights at night and was developed into an abstract image. Mind you, once I start working on a piece, whether it is from scratch or a photograph that is manipulated beyond recognition of the original subject, someTHING takes over and guides the process ... it seems that the image creates itself, and I am just along for the ride. The hard part - two hard parts, actually - is, one, knowing when to stop and, two, thinking up a title. Sometimes the latter is a no brainer, having taken on a life of its own and practically screaming at me what to call it. THis was one of those.

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...