I’m an amateur photographer and digital artist. One of my greatest pleasures is being able to sit down for an hour with a photograph, and see what secrets lie beneath the image as it was originally captured.

Today, I worked on this photo:

… and the entire time I worked on it, playing with the colors, the tone, the nuances of the image, I kept thinking, “What’s she looking at?” Do you see her? The woman in the blue dress staring out at the ocean? Is she looking at the guy on … Read More »

I’ve been putting in some very long hours at the day job, and although I’ve been meeting my word count in the evenings, I’ve also been desperately in need of another creative outlet. So I started a new Photoshop project, and in a few sessions, I had this:

Okay, so I’m about a month behind the rest of the world. Despite the fact that it’s January, I got my second wind of Christmas spirit today. When I have spare time and I feel like doing something creative, I tackle one of two things: I write, or I play with Photoshop in an attempt to improve my graphic art skills.

So today, I could have very well worked on a Christmas story… but I didn’t. Instead, I created this: