At Project Prepare’s Summer Arts Camp, I collaborated with a group of twenty young artists to create public artwork for our community gardens. Working from my conceptual drawings and paintings, it took about a month of day camp for us to complete this mural for the Foster Elementary School Garden. This short animated film shows the…
Part documentary photographic essay and part studio construction, the photographic collage is an interesting hybrid artifact. Particularly with the use of film negatives and prints, the process took on a challenging, almost accidental quality. The result could be mundane, disastrous, or the definition of the synergy of the creative art studio. The scale of the assembled…
The Panoramic Collage is a simple and effective method of deconstructing an image, sharpening your point of view and enlarging the camera’s viewfinder. For many years, I shot these collages on film, giving the process a mysterious and quasi-magical air, since you’d long left the shooting site by the time you saw the processed images and…
Artists and photographers have used the Tryptich format for centuries to reinforce themes and refine their formal presentations. Related images and motifs have a revealing dynamic within the context of the work overall, and can clarify or obscure an artist’s concept. It’s an excellent tool to expose previously unseen elements and encourage an improvisational approach to…
Although in recent years artists and designers have relied more on computer programs and digital renderings to conceptualize their work, and less on the humble handmade drawing, I still prefer the old-fashioned method. Beautifully evocative of the finished work and the idiosyncratic personality of it’s creator, while still possessing the technical precision that sophisticated modern production…
This animated short film was created using a hybrid animation approach, stitching together thousands of digitally processed stills to make up individual scenes in the GIF format and then compiling those in video editing software. A musical score, sound effects and dialogue can also be added in the final edit. This video was a demonstration short…