The Flatland Digital Artwork Clip Art Gallery

Beltane Sunflower.

A clay flower, brick red alternating with gold and a soft grey, against a rayed sunburst in gold (surrounded by periwinkle blue).  It's set in a stone made from black stone decorated with alternating stripes.   The raised central flower (in that red clay color) is surrounded by arrows, the sign of Mars and male sexuality.  It's strange, but I like the contrasts and the inadvertent male/female symbolism.  In the center is a green stone set in gold.  The colors are brick red, vermilion, grey, flesh pink, periwinkle, apricot, and a very soft yellow.  It has a crude, bygone look.  There's something very pagan about it (and I don't know much about pagan religions except the little I learned in college).  I think the name is appropriate (and of course, an afternoon spent listening to Tull naturally provokes thoughts of the ancient Britons). 

Looking Southwest 3.

A stylized sunflower in leather:  yellow on an avocado background.  Very simple, very sharp.  These are Seventies colors for sure:  avocado and harvest gold used to be everywhere.  The early Seventies were all about the groovy psychedelic colors left over from the Sixties, but after that, everything split up into preppie pastels and trendy earth tones. 

Love Apple.

Think of Snow White and Georgia O'Keefe.  Or not. 

The background is a beautiful soft periwinkle tint (periwinkle at twilight); the image, formed out of glazed clay, is just very difficult to describe.  It's an objet principally in crimson with a white border (inscribed with a writing no one could read), in a shell of red, white, and yellow. 

Sun Flower 3, Southwestern.

This image was intended to look---and does look, I think---like a collage, clay and glass superimposed on paper.  The image is a sun-like flower, or flower-like sun in a very hot, chili-pepper red, surrounded by a yellow design in clay or wax,  The outer rays are made from digital "straw."  The background are those desert colors, the very soft peach against the soft blue-grey. 

Turquoise and Silver.

 
When I was a kid, people wore giant pieces of jewelry like this.  This one reminds me of a brooch someone gave me that came from New Mexico:  rough turquoise stones and rose colored beads on that heavy silver.  Everyone had them---we called them "pins," not brooches---but you could only wear them on things like winter coats because they made such enormous pinholes in anything else.  Mostly, once they went on to something they had to stay on it.  I wonder if they will ever come back in style again.  I have several vintage rhinestone pieces that belonged to my grandmother. 

But this style was later, when things from the southwest were really popular even in the east:  things that were simple, but in those desert colors. 

Flora's Child.

Ah primavera.  This image celebrates the gifts of Flora who strews color everywhere.  This is a "ceramic" image:  stylized flowers in pink and blue surrounding a larger denser image in greens blues, purples..  The background is red, green, and blue. 

Everybody is a Star

More of that Seventies feeling, this time in vibrant neon purple and green with a central five-pointed star made from multi-colored fabric, framed in black.  The colors include purple, neon green dark red, charcoal grey and ivory, but the hot purple and cooler green predominate.  Sometimes cool tones can be hot; and the picture itself generates pleasantly retro vibes.  Everybody is a star!   

Hippie Tie-Dye Dead Head Lamp.

This is artwork from my brokedown Seventies palace, starting with the pure, intense, innocent blue with the sea-green neon-level splotches and the pseudo-eastern look and feel of the central lamp.  Tie-dye and lava lamps:  there was more to the Seventies than that.  From where we're standing now it looks naive and self-involved, but there was an excitement to it, as if we really were on the verge of some sort of mystery.  It wasn't really the dawning of the Age of Aquarius and nobody's expectations really came to pass.  Nevertheless, we're all a little freer because of it. 

Radiant Clay

Clay image with radiant center in neon pink and green, surrounded by pink and purple petals and a stylized white and pink rim.  The image contrasts with rough greyish looking "earthenwear" background.  Corner details are blue and gold. 

Blue and Orange Persuasion.

   

My friend asked me for some digital pictures she could use at her University of Florida website, and I obliged by making a number of them.  I thought perhaps these images might appeal to other supporters of the Gators.  Orange and blue isn't an easy combination, but I think some of the pictures I made would make nice decorations for emails or backgrounds.  This one is very feminine, with a pleated central fleurette surrounded by a dark orange circle with copper insets.  The image is reiterated in the corners to give the tiles a scalloped edge.  The background is a soft orange with a faint but lacy design in pale blue.