Welcome to my little corner of Renderosity. I am interested in many things besides art, for example, languages. I read 15 languages, and I have 140 languages on my web site. I don't really write other languages, though, so don't be surprised if I leave a broken comment for you. :) Please feel free to leave me a comment in another language, too.
Prints of my art can be purchased at deviantARTBIOThese days, my entire life is gathered around art in some form or another. I have a bachelor's degree in art, which I chose so I wouldn't have to sit in a classroom all day listening to people talk. :) I got very serious about art after the last of our seven children left home. Prior to that, I was busy homeschooling them. Besides visual arts, I love to make music. I play piano, organ, recorder (a wooden instrument somewhat like a flute), and classical guitar, and I sing. In the past, I have also played gamelan (a gamelan orchestra consists of sets of tuned metal gongs and bells with a couple of drums, and originated in Asia in places like Bali), I rehearsed for awhile with the local balalaika orchestra, playing autoharp, and I have studied with Xochimoki, a Latin American native musical group. In addition to music, I practice the martial art of taekwondo. I have a second degree black belt. Concrete art for me includes pottery (I sometimes design my own glazes, and I especially love raku), a little bit of sculpture, needlepoint (I use fancy yarns and stitches and sometimes invent my own), macrame, circular weaving, and I draw in color pencil. I also like to design artistic web sites. I have a passion for photography, and I am slowly working my way through scenic sites in Arizona and neighboring states. In digital art, I make art in Terragen, Bryce, Vue d'Esprit, Ultrafractal, Xenodream, and Apophysis. I am trying to learn Mojoworld. In addition to my sponsor site, you can see more of my art at my professional site: Extraplicity. Prints of many of my images are available at deviantART.
Spiritually, I am an heiress to the wonderful doctrinal legacy of Martin Luther, and a joint heiress with Christ. Soli Deo Gloria.
Comments (21)
bebert
superbe !!!
ISSE
Creative as always
Silke
Wow, I like this. I have NO idea how those are made, and I'm usually not into fractals at all... but I like THIS one :) I think I would actually hang that on my wall.
Artzy
Love It!
Fractelaar
Great one for a modern living room Pat :-) a Beuaty
paragon5
This is a very beautiful image Pat! Great work!
gumbykat
This is a definite "Vote for this image" image! You really did an excellent job on this one, Pat. Fantastic!
Henny31
my vote for ths one too,, it is fabulous! Love the background and know how hard it is to create.
redbeard
Really nice. How do you make something like this? Is it more than one layer? It's very complicated but everything fits together well, great sand colors.
abmlober
Es geflt mir sehr gut.
DaMonk
Exquisite!
skyeX
Outstanding, unusual flame! I love the coloring and the title fits, it really looks like a sculpture!
PatGoltz
Thanks for your many kind and generous comments. I was also especially pleased with this image. This is a single layer, made in Apophysis. The texture was part of the original image. I did sharpen a little and added the border, post process. If you are familiar with Apophysis, you know that images are made by pulling around trangles and their corners (or specifying numeric values for the positions of the corners). The only other thing you can do is play with the gradient. An image is created by pulling the triangles until you like the look and then rendering. The original image in the preview also had sand texture on the sculpture itself, but that disappeared in the render. I was unable to restore that appearance in post processing.
tresamie
I love the pendulum swings and the sandy texture!
LFNForever
AWESOME!! :)
Wyvern7
Great contemporary style!
choronr
Very creative and beautiful work.
Snow_Angel
Just fantastic and very unique flame Pat!
gallimel
greatly textured and composed.
bragova
Very fine composition.
Xlars
Wooow! this is amazing artwork. Very impressive.. this composition, suptle coloring etc. Do you really mean that about comments in other languages? Ok .. in Danish then: "Jeg kan virklig godt lide dette billede. Der er en vidunderlig dybde her og alligevel holdt til en begrset palette af farver fra den sten/sandfarvede palette. Et dejligt billede der burde omstes til trykt kunstvk f.eks. som plakat".