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Diana Morningstar
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Digital Graphic Artist Shasta Mirage Digital Arts
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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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Is Lemurian Agate Real?
We have this from the University of Nebraska’s Agate Lexicon: Lemurian Agate, …a new California find, no description, no locality, Trade Name, adv., Pyramid Rock Mart, Lapidary Journal, v. 1, no. 2, p. 79. …adv. Rocks & Minerals, 1947, v. … Continue reading
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
Posted in Art in Progress
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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3D Model Minaret Under Construction
Another recent model project is this minaret design for a city scene I’m working on. This time I’m sketching from traditional styles I’ve found on the web, loosely inspired by the Hassan II mosque in Casablanca, though this is intended … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Digital Graphics, Art in Progress
Tagged 3D modeling, architecture, Art of Illusion, minaret, mosque
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Ouroboros Ring
I’m just getting started on my artist site, but what I’m really itching to do is get back to my 3D modeling efforts. I’ve got some good stuff going here, like this Ouroboros ring: This one started as I was … Continue reading
Posted in 3D Digital Graphics, Art in Progress
Tagged 3D modeling, Art of Illusion, Ouroboros, raven, ring, Wagner
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