I am a multimedia artist, as well as a Digital Artist and Graphic Designer. I have written poetry and had some published. I do macro photography of the many varieties of flowers that grow so well in Alaska.
I have designed my own lines of jewelry, and created advertising design. I designed clothing and have done interior design and flower arraigning. I have drawn house plans, done landscape design, watercolors, oil painting and photography. BIOMy formal art training consists of two years of art in high school! While in high school, I won 1st place in Industrial Arts in the state, for an original design in a hand-tooled leather handbag set. It also won an honorable mention in the Ford Motor Company, International contest.
In 1992 I had my own jewelry design and repair business, and developed severe Carpal Tunnel. My doctor said, "Do something else - you can't do jewelry work any more." I went back to college and had to learn the computer. I had never turned on a computer before. Needing an artistic outlet, I started playing with the "paint" program on the computer. I still have the 1st flower I drew. It was awful! That...is how I was introduced to the world of computer art.
I bought my 1st BRYCE (3D) in about 1999, and was immediately "hooked". I didn't have a clue what I was doing. I just installed it and started tinkering around - and around - and around. HOURS of tinkering. Frustrating hours, since I lived in Alaska, with no one to teach me. I wanted to throw the computer out the window, more than once! But I hung in there hour after hour, day after day. It scares me to think of how many hours I have put into learning BRYCE!
The primary programs I use are BRYCE 5, PAINTER 6, COREL PHOTOPAINT, & PLANT STUDIO. I use ADOBE PHOTOSHOP for some things. I create all my trees in the tree lab in BRYCE, and many of the plants, with PLANT STUDIO. The nozzles I make in PAINTER.
I sign my work as "BLUE ICE", because the name of my jewelry business was, Blue Ice Beads and people here knew me as "Blue Ice". I decided to keep the name since it relates to the Alaska I love, and the winter scenes I am so fond of creating. :-)
If it's art - it's my passion!
Comments (24)
hanashonen
Love the color! Deep! ^_^
smitts
Great colors and design!!
Richardphotos
one of your most outstanding posts and a gorgeous red
baroque_no_monet
Wonderful intensity of color in the design. It certainly works as a Valentine's image. Beautiful!
KITCHAOS
LOVEly piece Anita!
invidiosa
an interesting tunnel - dark and mysterious with lots of deep passion and complex feelings - but there is light at the end of it
StudioAlex
Color does make one think of valintines.
The_Captain
Excellent colors, matey! Very well done!
argiebooze
An image with incredible depth much like love is. The bright red spot can lead you to reflect about many things farther than the eye actually sees and balances the whole image as well. You are very inspired these days Anita!!
DIANE603
This is gorgeous!!
Marit
Woewie! The red in the distance is attracting my attention! Beautiful depth her and wonderful colors!
maud
Lovely spiral, design and coloring, and the lightplay is superb! :)
LENK911
THAT'S A LOT OF LOVE!! SO BEAUTIFUL. LOVE ALL THE SHADES OF RED! MORE PLEASE.
Dindin
Red is beautiful and so is your tunnel of love , I would`nt mind at all to get lost there for a couple of hours :)
Henny31
wow what a lovely shades of red and I see Passion written all over it.... Gorgeous fractal...
kansas
Well, I fell in love with this image and the coloring! Passionate!
avalonfaayre
Beautiful rich color and detailing! Very very captivating. I love the lacey look.
LFNForever
Extremely gorgeous spiral, beautifully colored, and awesome conceptuality! :)
redbeard
A dark, beautiful, and mysterious place, fraught with danger and surprises. Excellent work!
kimpe
What a pretty fractal! Lovely work!
tony_br22
stunning fractals
WahlCat
Wonderful!
KingPtolemy
Another passionate theme!!! Very beautiful work!!! Bravo!!!
zoozee
Wonderful Love Theme :)) Great 3D effect in this .. wonderful depth. Very passionate and wild love :):)