This one is frustrating me. I don't know whether to keep working on it... or destroy it.

An artist named Elena Mary Siff gave me a link to animoto and I created a short video using them. I have been wanting to play on Youtube for some time, but I am frightened of video making. (really, I have no idea what to do) .. so through them, I was able to make something short- yet groovy. Check it out HERE! Please leave comments - but good ones like "Wow, this is awesome" or "I almost peed my pants with delight when watching this amazing video" or something like "perfect" would work too.

"Everything seemed ok, until.." Version 1.2

I had added some color, and was thinking about stopping.. but it was not enough

"Everything seemed ok, until.." This is the original drawing

So I just finished another digital hybrid piece. I took this one from my original postcard sized drawing entitled "Everything seemed ok, until...". I believe that I will have various versions of this one over time so I decided calling them "versions" to signify that there are changes in the works. I, of course, was inspired by all the 'version' this and 'version ' that in regards to programs.

There are a few reasons that I have become interested in working digitally. Of course, there is the desire to try new things and push my work to be more than it has been. But, there is also the idea of the preciousness of art. This last summer, I had a flood in my bedroom and studio. It was horrible and I ended up having to throw many supplies and works out. That experience has had me thinking about how easily things can be lost and the price put upon them. In experimenting digitally with my 'precious' drawings I am allowing them to exist in a different form and in the even of another disaster - they will be safe in one form or another! Also, the idea of the preciousness pushes me to digitally destroy some of the details in the drawings that I was so proud of. I can smudge and color and add pixels to my drawings.

One last thing in regards to the price of art. I have enjoyed selling work to people who have paid a lot for a painting (I especially like those sales in that they help me pay my car payments). One of my favorite sales was one in where I sold a small drawing to a farmer in overalls. I loved it. I loved that a working "class" person in overalls bought one my drawings! Being from small town Iowa, I know that farmers are not the biggest buyers of art. So, in creating digital works I make my work more available to people. People a little more like myself. Doing this also allows people to invest in my work and not feel that they have to buy a million dollar frame to hang it in. In fact, I really like some of the ideas in this article on Etsy about ways to hang work and I thought I should link it for you.

http://www.etsy.com/storque/spotlight/artistic-endeavors-the-art-of-arrangement-3261/#comment-66315

ooo and just click on the top image (the finished version) and it will lead you straight to my Etsy shop!

check out my website

http://www.marylundberg.com/

I have just updated it with some digital work...

I have just placed the above image on 1ooomrkets.. just click on the image and it will take you to my shop.

digital prints and reproductions

I have decided to take the plunge into placing reproductions and digital/drawing hybrid art into my etsy shop. The above image is one of my "hybrid" pieces.. it was originally a drawing that I have played with digitally. I really have always enjoyed that in drawing there is a certain crudeness of the image - a mark made through the force of a human hand is organic and imperfect compared to a computer generated line. One thing I have been experimenting with over the last year is the digital image. In working with so many digital images, I have found the line to be too perfect - that organic feel was not there. I have, however, been interested in the idea of multiples and the ability to alter an image digitally. I have also been interested in so my images that have not been so "perfect" - those images that come out all fuzzy and the color off.
So, I decided to combine my drawing and digital prints. I have been taking my drawings that I had thought of as finished pieces and have been running them through changes digitally. In this piece, I have added color and changed contrasts and allowed a small amount of pixalation (hmm is that even a word?) to occur without overwhelming it. I really like how I can create something that can be held physically in my hand - and have that image changed so with each alteration it becomes less of that original idea, yet maintains the original style. This allows me to play with the idea of what is a print versus what is a reproduction.
Currently, I am in the process of adding the above image along with some others and reproductions to my store. My shop can be found at lundberg.etsy.