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Series In Progress: Deity Series

I’m beginning work on the “Deity Series.” I actually started it and a few years back, with about three images, and then got to work on different things.
The idea is to recreate religious imagery of the plethora of Gods in the Hindu religion and perhaps some of the saints from Catholicism. I’m thinking in particular [...]

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1940’s Style Pin-Up Illustration

I’m looking for models to shoot 1940’s & 50’s style pin-up illustrations.
http://picasaweb.google.com/jay.gidwitz/PinUpsProjects#
I would shoot the photographs in front of green screen and then create the (usually sparse) environment in photoshop and then import the image into Painter X to make it look more like an organically painted image.
I would not just be recreating the look [...]

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Rachel: Time & Decay

Surrealist nude female figure expressing time and decay

I finally got a decent picture of this model finished.
Most of the pictures I made from this photoshoot received little acclaim. Richard Fishman actually liked this image!
Yay!!

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Pleasure Dome Posters

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More from the Interacting | Processing Series

Bride Stripped Bare 2 (Large Glass)

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Interacting | Processing

(explanation below)

In progress artist’s statement for “interacting | processing”.
interacting | processing
sig·il n.
1. A seal; a signet.
2. A sign or an image considered magical.
A sigil can be understood as a symbol for a concept, complex meaning, or family seal representing the values that a family considers most [...]

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Art Competition: “Humans in the moment”

About a month ago I submitted to “The TOPTEN Human in the Moment“– an online competition put on by ARTROM gallery based in Rome.
One of my pieces got in!
The Winners’ Exhibition opens Sunday, May 4th at 7:00pm (Rome time) on artromgallery.com.
The picture was an unpublished image from the Erich Zann posters.

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