I live in the southern hemisphere. Here June is winter. So for that month, my digital media group selected the theme 'frost'. On 6 June 2024, I completed this artwork. The reference photo was sourced from a website. I built up the image by layering tones and shapes.
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Here are some of my artworks. I entered the one above in an exhibition. They are listed chronologically; the most recent is last.
Urban Sketchers Canberra visited the Canberra Museum & Gallery. My digital art gear needs electricity and shade. So I sat in the closed cafe, facing the bar. I finished the above artwork on 13 September, 2024.
My art club was preparing for an exhibition. So its digital media group set the theme 'Deadlines'. On 20 September 2024, I finished the above conceptual artwork.
My art group set the topic 'Exhibition/Exhibitionism'. So my above artwork is a nude. Its subject had been a local helper at the 2009 World Naked Bike Ride. Which event highlighted cyclists' vulnerability. I finished this artwork on 6 November, 2024.
On 12 January 2025, I participated in an Urban Sketchers Canberra field excursion. The locale was downtown, in a mall called Scott's Crossing. On 15 March 2025, I finished my above artwork. My artistic style looks like a collage of objects.
The above diagram shows how to connect a mouse to a smart TV. I completed it on 5 April 2025.
For the month of May, my digital media group had the theme 'May...'. Which I interpreted as "maybe". So by 10 May 2025, I depicted Schrödinger's cat, which is a paradox. My artwork is above.
My digital media group chose the theme 'lasting impressions', which made me think of fossils. To illustrate this, I auto-traced my photo of fossil leaves. They were from the late Permian period, about 254 million years old. I then added a sandy backdrop to evoke their natural environment, and applied a filter-effect, to enhance the visual impact. I finished my above artwork on 8 June, 2025.
I was impressed by a pastel artist's presentation. So I emulated such hues, layering gradients, both radial and linear. The first, radial, gradient was greyscale. For the later, linear gradients, I used colour models. I applied a red, green, and blue (RGB) gradient vertically. Then I added a cyan, magenta, yellow and black (CMYK) gradient horizontally. I finished the above artwork on 16 June, 2025.
