For me, art is a voyage of discovery. I am as surprised by the art I create as anyone else who views it. Though I constantly strive to improve my skills, I am much more interested in creating something new (and hopefully beautiful) under the sun than in craftsmanship. I feel that photography has superseded other forms of art when it comes to reproducing the external world -it is the interior landscape that I strive to explore and reveal.
BIO
Born in Paris, France in 1950. Moved to New York when I was 5 years old. From an early age, developed an (unhealthy? obsessive?) interest in fantasy, science fiction, surrealism and anything that was beautiful and mysterious. My parents called me "Jean de la Lune" because I was often distracted by things that they couldn't understand. Also had an aptitude for drawing from an early age, but never really pursued it seriously back then. Went away to college in 1967, at the time that the psychedelic zeitgeist was reaching critical mass & got swept up in the maelstrom. Ego disintegrated & a new one rose like a phoenix from the ashes. Began drawing & painting in a stream-of-consciousness mode, bypassing the rational mind. Fell in love, moved to Berkeley, California, and had a son. Took art classes (illustration, figure drawing, portraiture, color theory, etc.). In the late 70's, began playing with computers. Learned to program & wrote simple applications for generating visual patterns. Having no real aptitude for marketing my artwork, I instead embarked on a career in information technology, which lasted 22 years, at which time I quit (in May of 2003). My current incarnation as a digital artist began with the first release of Fractal Design Painter. I experienced a breakthrough with the first release of Bryce, which was the medium that enabled me to finally satisfy my creative impulses. I use many other supporting pieces of software (Amorphium, Poser, & several others), but they only provide me with input for Bryce. All of my images are rendered only in Bryce, with no post-processing at all. Each of them starts with a bare-bones idea or model or texture which I then attempt to allow to evolve in whatever direction "it" decides & which I have never been able to predict. I obsessively tweak shapes, colors, textures, & visual relationships until the image seems "right". If the final result is somewhat disturbing and disorienting, yet at the same time beautiful, then I have succeeded...
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Comments (9)
ralphwarnick
Wonderful!
cvrad
awesome image
giulband
Very very fine !!!
Faemike55
when I saw this my mind jumped to Tommy Ever since I was a young boy, I've played the silver ball. From SoHo down to Brighton, I must have played them all. But I ain't seen nothin' like him In any amusement hall. That deaf, dumb and blind kid Sure plays a mean pinball. He stands like a statue, Becomes part of the machine. Feelin' all the bumpers, Always playin' clean. He plays by intuition. The digit counters fall. That deaf, dumb and blind kid Sure plays a mean pinball. He's a pinball wizard, There has to be a twist. A pinball wizard, Got such a supple wrist! Great work
zoren
a rainbow bright eyed "plastic fantastic" doggie and friends nice colors!
peedy
Beautiful image and colors! Corrie
anahata.c
wow, claude, I'd raise money for you to get a super-powerful computer if it means you doing more of these pieces. This is spectacular. It has such clarity, it's almost a live 3 dimensional glass sculpture. Your central creature is wonderfully complex, his/her eyes are wonderfully surrounded by your usually creative and active borders; the beard or part where the 'neck' would normally be is so rich in glassy reds and hidden greens; the shoulders are bubbling rich; the two "lower arms' (?) are wonderful chandeliers, and it all sits atop another creature with eyes in contrasting peach-orange hues. The upper portion is wonderful almost 17th or 18th C ornamental work, with baubles and gold leafed flora. The blues are luminous. The two side "modules" are like a mix of mitochondria or microscopic single-celled creatures, and pods, and big glowing night worms and glimpses into another world via those ovular openings...and the overall vision---well, if it's god's cheat on all of us, it bypasses god altogether and reveals a lush vivid universe where there's not only opulent chaos but wonderful clarity, pattern and reason. It's splendid. I have to fav this gallery, I don't want to miss a post...
BryceHoro
That's an absolutely amazing render.
auntietk
I really like your Bryce work. Having very little idea of how it's done, I can only gaze in appreciation. It's a wonderful way to view art, but leaves me with very little to say besides, "gosh, I like this!"