Another Pleasant Valley Sunday -

"Grapes - Artistamp (Block-of-Six)"
$50 unframed - LUCAS GALLERY
digital design by Mick Mather

Although I've not bothered to mention it, I've been on vacation for the last 10 days. I spent that time loafing, reading, eating, napping, visiting relatives and friends while putting in minimal hours here at the secret visual laboratory. Next week I begin traveling a little bit and will be away, off and on, for the next eight days. That said, I'm not yet certain how my posting schedule is likely to go and, as we have here today, some post and run days will be the norm. Come to this image, it's a piece created for an old mailart call known as "The Exquisite Squares Project" from almost a decade back if my calculations are correct. The original square was done completely in MS Paint on my old Zenith Data Systems computer running Windows 3.1 - not long ago that square was turned into this artistamp. Now, it seems to be time for that nap! :D

It seems like Friday Night -

"Shimmer"
digital painting by Mick Mather

One of my projects over the past winter was transferring and re-saving all of my floppy files. With the 4th of July upon us, I decided to take a peek into those files for a few images to get me through to Thursday. In the late 1990's I was taking tentative steps into the realm of digital art using MS Paint on a really old Zenith Data Systems computer running Windows 3.1 - I must say that I miss that old version of paint for one of the features it no longer contains called "stretch and skew". It makes no never mind here, however, since that nifty little function isn't used. So, a peek at something very abstract from those early attempts. Sometime soon I'll post a set of old artistamps created on that same computer ... wait for it!