Illustration Friday: Clique -

"Clique"
manipulated digital drawing by Mick Mather

The weekly theme at Illustration Friday is clique. As I was considering my options this digital drawing came to mind. I started it months ago and left it quite unfinished, until today when it all started to make perfect sense. I should say that, at first, I was going to offer up a black square. In the end, aside from being a difficult point to make, that would have been too minimal to suit even me - besides the fact that the white squares and black squares thing has been done before, I find the idea of ROY G BIV to be much more colorful, all inclusive and paradoxically elite at the same time.

Another Ghost? -

"Mirror, Mirror"
digital collage by Mick Mather

While there's no official series for a number of ghost-like images I've been accumulating, this piece would certainly fit in if there was. For a look at the image that sparked the idea, have a peek here. Anyway, this minimalist work suggests something else to me. That said, I can hardly wait to see what the Finnish Sisters may have to say and usually in spite of my descriptive titles! :)

Something about her -

"Driven To Abstraction"
digital collage by Mick Mather

It's always a blast to work on something ordinary, an unremarkable, candid snapshot for instance. You know the sort, taken at a dinner, an office party or some function that only merits a casual documentation. Even the most boring of these contains something, or someone, with a sparkle and shine worth elevating, like the subject in tonight's post, obviously. After running this one through the usual array of super secret filters, as well as some of the new ones, an abstract quality began to assert itself. So, a bit of minimalism wrestling its way out of an almost ambient color field toward the realism of the figure. Do pardon the professorial hoo-haw explanation that translates, in my own mind, to: I like her smile!