New art form I am working on... very cool

[canadianbeaver]

I have been working very hard on a new form of artwork over the last couple of weeks. I has been pretty successful and a gallery in Toronto has given me some good feedback. This is very much the begining stages, but I think you guys are really going to dig this!

Check it out. These images are created in Adobe Illustrator 6. They use my skills as a graphic designer and a couple of years of colour theory I took in Art School. The mentor for this is a guy named Itten. Hope you like!

[vink]

Wow so cool!!! Johannes Itten of Bauhaus school I presume? I'm in architecture and graphic design have always interested me and I love Illustrator, it's my favorite program! Keep the good work!

[canadianbeaver]

Yes sir and thanks! I am trying so hard NOT to say "Smitten by Itten" or I want to be "Itten's Kitten". After 8 hours of colour picking, you get a bit nutty!

[PuffDaddie]

Cool

[oliverdst]

Congrats, Beaver,

Hope someday I can buy one of your itens.

[Squarehead]

Nice Lisa

[Puros Y Vino]

Very cool. Make large enough prints and you'll have passerby go cross eyed. Especially that first one.

[Perla]

Really nice piece of Art! Congrats.

[canadianbeaver]

Very cool. Make large enough prints and you'll have passerby go cross eyed. Especially that first one.

LOL!

[canadianbeaver]

Here's a new one for today for golfers...

Fore!

[orangedog]

I can't seem to tease out the 3D images buried in these... usually I could get them no problem, these are more difficult. I will have to work on my connoisseurship.

[canadianbeaver]

I can't seem to tease out the 3D images buried in these... usually I could get them no problem, these are more difficult. I will have to work on my connoisseurship.

LOL If I could make 3d images in them I would really make some dough!

[sabourin]

very cool indeed

[CanuckSARTech]

Reminds me a bit of those 3D artwork books / brain teasers from years back. Where you held the image super close to your face, basically went cross-eyed, and then moved the book/image away from you and began to see a 3D image hidden within the confusion of the main image. Kinda funky.

[canadianbeaver]

Here's a couple of new ones

[Squarehead]

Very nice Lisa.

[canadianbeaver]

I know we have some Scotties here so I thought I would put this one up. Just finished this one after a grueling 2 days. The creating of the tartans practically had me hallucinating!

[orangedog]

If you don't mind the unsolicited opinion, I'd say they are getting better each iteration... that last red and gold-ish one is my favorite so far.

[canadianbeaver]

Thank you! I figured that is what would happen. That is why I am continuing to post. It is to show my progression as I improve.

[Hohenthal]

Brava!

[Balboa]

nice work Lisa !!!

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[CanuckSARTech]

If you don't mind the unsolicited opinion, I'd say they are getting better each iteration... that last red and gold-ish one is my favorite so far.

Must be a Canadian at heart! Art must have rubbed off on you!

Agreed with him, Lisa - that maple leaf one looks great.

[canadianbeaver]

Thanks so much guys! To give you an idea about the process and how nutty this can be for me, here is one I am working on so far... It will be about martinis.

[PigFish]

Reminds me of some MC Escher stuff, which I have always liked. Maybe you should make some cigar band linking art for the group. You have got a built in market!!!

Really nice Lisa, thanks for sharing. -Ray

[canadianbeaver]

Actually the first true tessellation I ever created was for the Toronto Herf last year, I gave out post cards with this on it and there were 2 framed prints in the silent auction.

By the way, if anyone wants to download these low Rez images for your laptop or cel phone backgrounds, feel free... Unfortunately they are not really printable

Note the lighters between the cigar bands...