Photo Source Digital Abstract Painting Art

I make digital abstract paintings for fun, from my own paintings.....this from my "Earths Mantle"........rainy day fun for me, these many rainy days....

This from At The Bazaar

From this....

My Fav manip........

Nice stuff! Keep'm coming!

I'm actually not all that new to digital painting, etc. I got my very first computer specifically so that I could digitally manipulate my photography, and video. Waaaay back even before the first graphic user interfaces hit what was then called the "World Wide Web".

At the time, my machine of choice was a Commodore Amiga 2000. I forget the name of the popular digital paint program I was using, but at the time it was light years ahead of the Mac and/or PC. Good times. ;)

I remember back then having a little extra cash at some point that I wasn't expecting and contacted a stock broker someone recommended. It wasn't a lot of money, but I wasn't expecting it and wanted to take stab at investment. Knowing so very little about it, after getting advice from that idiot stock broker, I got nervous and didn't invest.

Told him I wanted to invest in Mozilla Netscape that now has become Firefox. I told him I think this new Internet World Wide Web was really going to take off. He advised against it... said it was just the trend that year and would go away.

The second stock I wanted to buy was Starbucks. I told him I think this company is going to really capitalize on the McDonalds-izing of the coffee shop trends. Again, he told me it was just a fad and that they'd likely be yesterday's news by year's end.

I don't remember the name of the guy, but I'd sure like to find him now... and then give him a swift round-house kick to the head. LOL ;)

EDIT. Sorry not sure how to embed images into posts.

These are beautiful abstracts, Skip! I'm curious what software you use to convert photographs to abstracts like these...

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Most of my digital paintings are from scratch, but here are a couple I made using photos...





Aaron, on the sidebar below the title, artist, description, colors, etc., there's a link box with some code in it. Highlight the code, and copy it (Ctl-C), then paste it in your reply to embed your photos.

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Wow! Vivian and Skip those are awesome !

Technically these are not abstractionism but everybody thinks they are.

CNC'd Aluminum


Melted car battery terminals


Uprooted tree

Wow, so many beautiful abstracts.

I'm a professional photographer and create many digitally painted images from my photos.
Here are just a few I've done, but I have over 100. Sorry, I don't know how to actually embed the photos in the posts yet.

My most popular piece.




Some others.

Love the surprise of playing with color and texture...

Thank you Tony - glad you enjoy ! Especially you!

I like to switch it up sometimes and see what I can come up. I get so into it that I rarely take any notes on how I achieved effects so I can't duplicate them. It just means that I have to play all over again! I find this process to be a great stress reliever.

Here's an abstract of tree bark.



This one started out as a photograph of Indian Paintbrush flowers...



This began as a photograph of bees pollinating allium flowers.



I played with this one a lot and ended up with an orange abstract that I rather liked. I can see a figure walking in the picture and it made me think of somebody trudging off to work. I can't even remember what photograph I started with.



Here's an abstract of irises...



This is a photograph of oil and water that I tinkered with to create a fantasy scene...

Skip, Ive been "painting" with photographs for quite some time now....most recently combining two images at minimum to create something entirely new...here's a sampling of my last 2 weeks of work...

This started out as a photo of an old baking sheet my wife wanted me to throw out.

Here are a few using Topaz Expressions

99.999% of all my fine art digital abstracts begin their life as a photograph - sometimes a good one - sometimes one that just won't ever make it at all. This one began life with a deliberately taken photograph of very early, still dark, street lights and car headlights - blurry at best. then I copy, layer, twist, turn, cut and paste, twirl, and blur layers to finally achieve something that appeals to my sense of aesthetics.



began life as:

I just took and created this image today. Fall leaves outside my home. I then digitally painted them.

Oh wow! I've been busy tweaking my galleries, pricing, promo, etc. and am just looking at this. Some sweet stuff here! :)

This was made from a composite of the Joshua Tree photo and a photo of an old car... then processed thru DAP and Photoshop....



bob

Great thread, Skip; I love seeing these extreme transformations!

Creatively morphing my photographs has been the primary focus of my work for about two decades. That was my goal when I deliberately switched from traditional photography to . . . something else. I don't consider them 'paintings' in any way, but photographic art is the most gratifying art form I've ever worked with. :-)

Here are a few photos-to-abstractions:

B-427 Scorpion Submarine, Before + 2 Afters




Post-processed skywalk from the San Antonio Museum of Art + 1 heavily processed After




Post-processed vintage deco ceiling fixture (from the recently dismantled San Antonio Municipal Auditorium) + 2 Afters

One of m favorites. I enjoy taking my photos and creating some thing new from the shapes and textures.

For me, I do the photography thing out of a long-running obsession. The sort of thing I'd likely even pay to continue doing even if no one bought my work or hired me. The digital painting and/or photo manipulation, or the combination of the two, is the kind of thing I do pretty much just for fun. Like a child with finger paints. They just do it because it makes them feel good and giggle a little bit. :)

Original photo.....



Photoshopped... all done with the Art History Brush.. color adjustments or course ;O)



bob

Yes, Skip.......the 'manipulations', of my own work only, is 'rainy day' play and so freeing because I delight in the outcomes and the journey, and am without worrying about an audience/patron.......especially now that I'm 'confined to quarters' much of the time.........

Others' outcomes fascinate me,too.........I really like that, Bob !