Title: Donut Ripple Artist: Astrid van Beek Medium: Digital Size: Height x Width: 8" x 10" All prints come framed in a standard black metal frame; for other sizes or frames with mattes, please contact us. Click on IMAGE for larger viewAbout the Artist: Philosophy: The New Age gives me new media to act out my creative spells. In the past I limited myself to drawing in black and white, over the years this evolved into a full color digital portfolio. The theme has not changed over the years: I see shapes and forms in everything around me and use these to make new ones. I see the eye as a recording device tailor-made to the owner of it and my objective is to give the viewer a mix of wonder and attraction when looking at my projects. Explaining why I choose the computer as my main canvas is difficult, some even think it is “the easy way”. I believe that a computer screen is still a pad or easel and the result is generated by my own creativity. Style: Abstract Imagery – Adapting common photographs into new shapes and colours. During the process of making my Fractal Art, I seek to blend mathematical shapes and fluidity to unusual and intriguing compositions. Technique: My photographs are usually taken with a Sony Cybershot. I am currently looking to replace it but haven’t made up my mind yet. My Fractal shapes are composed basicially, out of Apophysis and Chaoscope, the structured materials are set up in Sterling. All further work is done in Adobe Photoshop CS. Background: In High School (in the Netherlands where I was born) I did not take my art really serious. From all the drawings I did, only a few “survived”. After being an exchange student in Denmark and looking for a steady profession, I became a bookbinder and later a full color offset printer. During those years I designed several bookcovers, corporate logos, stationary, etc. I was drawing portraits and started slowly into photography. I changed from printing to organizing and being self-employed. With the rise of Internet I switched to making websites and got introduced to Photoshop. When I got introduced to Fractals a whole new ‘swing’ came into my work and it boosted my creative juices up until this day. |