Digital painting -

"Jumble Box"
digital drawing & painting by Mick Mather

This piece goes back a ways. In fact, this immediately preceded work that quickly became the Reinventing the Wheel Series beginning in the summer of 2007. It all came about while playing with some new editing tools in the secret visual laboratory after running some playful blobs of color and a few squiggly lines over, under, sideways and down. Since this weekend saw the arrival of Daylight Savings Time for the Eastern section of the United States, I have to say that I'm a little bit off schedule. Yup, I feel a lot like tonight's post - like a Jumble Box!

Moving right along -

"The Running Gears of Hell"
$50 Unframed - LUCAS GALLERY
digital drawing & painting by Mick Mather

There's been a healthy return on investment when it comes to my time spent viewing artwork. I should point you to another favorite site, FFFFOUND!, that I've been checking a lot more often these days - a daily posting of some amazing images to be found on the internet. It's a tagging or bookmarking social website that anyone can use to keep track of their favorites without using up megabytes of space on their own hard drive. Well, for now, registration is closed while the site is in what it calls private beta, whatever that means. Anyway, you can still scroll through the new additions as they go up, jump to other, similar images in the sidebar, or click a member name to see their bookmarked images. That said, the piece you see here was inspired by something I saw over there last night. At the same time, it's tied to a recent conversation I was involved in regarding Old Irish Sayings. As can be seen here for example, when an Irish woman is caught at less than her personal best appearance, she might say, "Off with yer blarney, then - I look like the running gears of hell!" Well, here they are! :)