First Layered Photographic Painting

6/18/2012

"Tiny Jungle"

First Paintograph

This was my first layered photographic painting, done early in my art-apps obsession, to test out my ideas and theories and some artist apps capabilities. I used four photos, four or five apps and probably seven or eight layers. The inspiration is from some photos taken of a struggling houseplant, whose drooping leaves were beginning to turn gold.

I was so pleased with the process and the results that I am now (and probably forever) hooked.

I'm still not sure what to call these paintings.
"Layered photographic painting" is very long. "Paintograph" or "Artograph" is shorter but could have any number of other meanings. "Manipulated photograph" doesn't really catch the painting side of it.

Any other good ideas?

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About
the Artist

Nancy Freeman is a native of California who lives now in Washington, DC. A lifelong artist, she paints portraits and other commissions for a living, which keeps her traditional skills tuned and supports her decades-old obsession with computer art, and pastel painting.

She is currently using her 15th, 16th, 17th, and 18th computers, but remembers
when Dick Tracy had to make do with a two-way wrist radio.