pixels, light and hot wax

(Okay, you probably can’t see the changes I made at web resolution, but at the full size print, you can. Or at least, I can.)

Atlantis VOGUE
2007 J. E. Patterson
Model: Anna
Clothing and Styling: Anna/Miss Velvet
Accessories: Seattle Aquarium
LE prints available

Elemental: City
2007 J. E. Patterson
Model: Jaime
LE prints available

If you are heading to Boskone 44, check out the Mike Ford Auction & Extravanganza. They picked “Throne of Fey” (which is one of my most popular pieces) as the piece of mine they’d like to have for the auction, and it’s the first time it’s been seen on that half of the continent in years (and probably won’t be again for quite some time, as I’ve pretty much stopped doing mail-in sf cons past the continental divide), so if you like it, buy it for a good cause.

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It’s matted to 8×10 in a complementary acid-free lilac mat for easy framing.

Not going to Boskone? Buy any one of my pieces OR commission a new one (via Jeliza.net, jeliza.etsy.com, e-mail, phone) through the end of March and tell me it’s for Dr. Mike, and I will donate 15% of the price to the John M. Ford Memorial Book Endowment.

Well, I’m not on the cover, Anna is. But I created it. This is an almost-done work-in-progress, done entirely in or as homework for the two weekend workshop on visual stories I just took with David Julian, which *rocked*.

Model: Anna.

Clothing: also by Anna.
Accessories provided by the Seattle Aquarium

More coming! I haven’t been this productive in a short period time since, oh, I had to put together my thesis show. Aren’t deadlines wonderful?

This piece has been stuck at work in progress for close to a year now; with the inspiration from the workshop I’m taking with David Julian at Luminous Works, I decided to bring it back out and whale on it a bit, adding a lot more color and complexity.

Model is Jaime.

There is still something I’m not happy with in the relationship of the figure to the rest of the piece, and I’ve lost all hope that my Elements series is going to be visually cohesive. Then again, if I only finish a new one every 18 months, does that really matter? (I have *sketches* for at least 5 more, but casting, scouting locations, and everything else in my very tight schedule means, well, prolific I am not.)

As promised, I have done an online version of the talk I gave on the history of Fantasy Photography at Orycon. Unfortunately, I’m still having a lot of technical difficulty, so instead of the full talk, you get the slides with the a slightly fleshed skeleton of the outline I talk from. It is in a quicktime movie format, and it can be downloaded from this link: fantasy photography historical slideshow. It’s 4 MB.

The handout (in PDF form) is also available.

Since both were obviously intended to presented in a larger context, I am happy to answer questions about the vaguer points in the material. Comment here, or e-mail to jane AT JEPphoto.com

The piece I donated (Floral System II, in a gorgeous metallic gold mat) to Jay Lake’s charity auctionlet is now up for bids on eBay, and with a starting bid of $20, a total steal.

The deadline for Christmas orders is December 18th, and depending on your location, that may involve an extra charge for rush shipping.

I will be showing at the Artspawn Open Studio Party, in Woodinville, on the 9th and 10th, from 11 am - 5 pm along with artist-in-residence Lisa Sheets

(collage)

Joe Lee Davidson

(acrylic on canvas)

and Alma Chaney:

(acrylic on canvas)

And I’m really excited about it!

I will primarily be showing work from the Space Whimsy series, but possibly also some of the newer mixed-media body pieces.

Artspawn Studios
13931 Bear Creek Rd
Woodinville, WA 98077
425 881-2192
lisa@artspawn.org

Stop by to share in art, food and conversation. See Artspawn’s new facility!

Just in time for Orycon, Cosmic Cat comes out to play.

I just sent a few pieces, with “befores”, off to Tracy Cornett, for her Fantasy Photography panel at Dragon. (Tracy rocks) I’ve been meaning to do proper before and afters/tutorials on the site for a while, but until I have time to do it properly, here is a little taste:

Summoning Luna (finished):

Summoning Luna (main source):

This is the first really complex composite I’d ever done, pretty much simultaneously with Throne of Fey and Planet Eater, and while there are certainly things I would do differently now, I’m still pretty pleased with it, especially as it is the first complex digital piece I’ve finished that started with a sketch, rather than looking through a shoot and going “Hmmm, I bet I could do something with that….” There were three different photographs combined with digital painting and the most persnickety layer masks ever. (I’m pretty sure this piece took in the neighborhood of 60 hours to finish.)

Poseidon’s Bouncer (finished):



Poseidon’s Bouncer (two main sources, out of 4 photographs)

Images like this are why I need to get myself to shoot more landscapes, even though I don’t particularly enjoy them. (Of course, that’s also why I started learning Vue, so I’m not limited to the landscapes I’ve shot.) I do have a plentiful supply of photos of fish bits, however (which also explains much of the Space Whimsy series; I just can’t resist flowers and sealife.

I am rather ill, which means the only way to not feel completely retched is to stay close to completely still. The only good thing about this is that, while I can’t do any of the work I was planning to do with this time, I can sit at the computer, so I got started on a piece I doodled the plan for just last night. This is probably not *done*, but it’s a good bit of the way there:

Cosmic Cat at Play
(unfinished, work in progress, photomontage)