Here’s a ‘mixed media’ portrait of my daughter’s black and white cat, most probably a Norwegian long hair that she named Wombat. I woke up one morning to find her comfortably seated on the end of my bed. I reached out to get my sketchbook while she remained still, perhaps curious what this human was trying to do. When revisiting my collection of sketches and journals last year I opened up to Wombat looking out of the page. I scanned the sketch with high resolution to bring up some contrast, then in photoshop added a layer of canvas paper for background, and an overlay of flypaper (filter) with texts. I like pencil sketches, but have not been sketching much ever since photography and painting with acrylic on canvas have taken up much of my time in my art endeavour. Yes, I have been making digital modifications to my photographs, and it is exhilarating how many versions of the same picture can turn up when I put in the time consuming effort. The craft itself lassos me into a momentum so that at times I’d forget to eat lunch…mmhmm.

in these pages i shall journal on the photographs and paintings that i have modified into my own brand of digital mixed media. a picture may be worth a thousand words, but i like to share my thousand thoughts about it.