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Diana Morningstar
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Digital Graphic Artist Shasta Mirage Digital Arts
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Nymph Interrupted
Nymph Interrupted: I was somewhere around 20 yrs old when I fell into a depression and never finished this. Just found this piece rummaging through a portfolio in storage. Somehow she has survived in her delicate papery form for about … Continue reading
Posted in Art in Progress, LGBTQ, Sketches
Tagged Faerie wings, fantasy, Nymph, Pastel
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Infinite Interleaving Image Available as Prints
The leaf tile pattern posted under ‘Decorative Penrose Tiles’ is now available as a card or print. The image has been retouched and cleaned up considerably from what was posted in low resolution back in December, and is now ready … Continue reading
Posted in Art in Progress
Tagged art prints, decoration, gallery, Penrose tiles, wallpaper
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Steampunk Airship 3D Model
I have created this steam driven virtual dirigible for use in my 3D art scenes. I am hoping to get a decent export of it to a generic 3D object format so it can be made more widely available. The … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Digital Graphics, Art in Progress
Tagged 3D modeling, Art of Illusion, steampunk, Vue
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Interlocking Sea Wyrms Rubber Stamp Pattern
The segmented sea wyrm above doesn’t look like all that much by itself. Indeed, the poor thing looks about ready to fall apart. However when repeated enough times at the right spacing, it interlaces with itself over and over to … Continue reading
Posted in Art in Progress, Web Graphics
Tagged Celtic, decoration, fantasy, knotwork, web site design, wyrm
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Kelmscott Chaucer border pattern
This leaf border is based on a pattern from the Kelmscott Chaucer and is suitable to use as a WordPress header image for most common WordPress themes. It is free to download and use anywhere. The image above is 1024 … Continue reading
Posted in Art in Progress, Web Graphics
Tagged decoration, free stuff, header image, web site design
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Interlocking Hearts Knotwork Design
For my wife on Valentine’s Day, I cooked up an original graphic with Celtic style knotwork in an interlocking hearts pattern. Hope you enjoy it. Tweet
Posted in Art in Progress, Web Graphics
Tagged Celtic, hearts, knotwork, tablet mouse
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Tiling William Morris Wallpaper Backgrounds
I have modified images of William Morris’ public domain wallpaper designs into seamless tiling web backgrounds for a client web site under development. Just click on a thumbnail below to see the full tiling wallpaper image. These are being given … Continue reading
Posted in Art in Progress, Web Graphics, Web Services
Tagged decoration, free stuff, wallpaper, William Morris
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Penrose Poinsettias
This effervescent efflorescence of poinsettias is the result of another Penrose pattern art tile design. This time, there are three tiles as shown below. Still only two geometric shapes, but single petals are substituted with the alternate leaf tile to … Continue reading
Decorative Penrose Tiles
I’ve long been fascinated with the artistic possibilities unleashed by Penrose tiles. These are tiles that can tile forever without ever repeating exactly, and they produce intriguing patterns as they go. The slice shown below would be repeated an infinite … Continue reading
Ouroboros Evolving
This is what the Ouroboros ring is looking like lately. Should be quite suitable to include in my scene with just a little more touch up. This is skinned and rendered with Vue. Tweet
Posted in 3D Digital Graphics, Art in Progress
Tagged 3D modeling, fantasy, jewelry, Ouroboros, ring, Vue
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Lemurian Agate
This lovely slice of multidimensional Lemurian Agate was quarried from the heart of Mount Shasta in the same quarry that produced the stone for the marvelous fluted spiral pillars in the east wing of the Great Hall of Telos. The … Continue reading
Posted in Art in Progress, Shasta Region
Tagged Agate, background, fantasy, Lemurian, Mount Shasta, mountain
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More fun with my tablet mouse
This stylized peak is meant to blend harmoniously with my Shasta Mirage branding and logo. I drew this for a presentation about my business, and I have liked it enough to use a softened version of it as the content … Continue reading
Posted in Art in Progress, Business and Branding, Web Services
Tagged Bamboo, Celtic, decoration, Gimp, knotwork, logo, mountain, Shastina, tablet mouse
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Fun with my tablet mouse
I just love my new tablet mouse! I’ve been having fun creating leaf patterns for a fantasy forest scene. These images will be fed into an automatic 3D tree generator to create a setting of wonder and intrigue. Then I’ll … Continue reading
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Tagged Bamboo, Celtic, decoration, fantasy, forest, Gimp, knotwork, tablet mouse
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Celtic Knotwork Design
I’ve been wanting to revive the Celtic chalice design I created several years back, and improve its modeling detail and exportability. One issue was the knotwork border around the top of the cup. The knotwork looks good on the smaller … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Digital Graphics, Art in Progress
Tagged 3D modeling, animals, border, Celtic, chalice, decoration, knotwork, Vue
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Fantasy Gothic Tower
This towering confection was a lot of fun to conjure up. Here it is rendered in Vue. Final assembly occurred in Vue, and now I will need to extract the parts and get them into a format suitable for wider … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Digital Graphics, Art in Progress
Tagged 3D modeling, Brussels, fantasy, gothic, render, tower, Vue
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