I started working with a drawing app, Sketchbook Express by Autodesk, on my ipad mini last year. The method was pretty simple. I had a total of 3 layers to work with. I started with simple photographic portrait as the base layer. I then did some finger painting on the layers above. I started interchanging layers and opacities, erasing and layering again, until I got something interesting. I got a piece of gear to use with the ipad called ‘pencil’ which is just a stylus. I sometimes use it but most of the drawings are still basically finger painting. The photos are of my friends and family. Most are online friends, either on Periscope, the live video app, or on Facebook. Some are images they took themselves and others are screenshots I took of them while they were doing their live videos.
To see the slide show, just click left or right on the image. This is an embedded gallery from my flickr.com site.
I wasn’t expecting it, but they have begun to sell. If you are interested in having one done of you on commission, or in buying one you see, let me know.
A friend of mine, Brittany Rainey, had modeled for some experimental images I was interested in doing. In exchange I created some images for her. We took them in the buildings and gardens of Philbrook Museum of Art in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
I led a workshop and attended SXSW (South by South West) 2014 in Austin, TX. recently. Here are some of my observations and compositions from the week.
Hello and welcome to the redesigned martycoleman.com site circa 2014. The last redesign was back in 2009, a LONG time ago.
In 2009 not only did I redesign the site but I also migrated my blogger blog, ‘The Digital Human’, over to WordPress. The intent at that time was to eventually integrate it into the then new site. However, my other blog ‘The Napkin Dad Daily’, pretty much took over my life at that point and I put this blog on hold.
The Old is New
I never did get rid of it and when I decided to redesign this time around I also decided to activate the old blog as an archive. There are a number of years worth of entries and I didn’t want to lose them. They also speak to many issues about photography and art that are still interesting so there was no reason not to include them in the site.
The New is New
I will of course be adding new posts as time progresses but for now, enjoy the new site, take a look at the new galleries and peruse the old blog entries if you would like.
I will also be adding more information about me, my work, where it can be seen and purchased, as well as adding new galleries that flesh out my creative history over the decades.
This is a story of connections. We went to this financial planner about 6 months ago for some advice. In the process I talked about starting my own business and the principal planner (the guy in the front) gave some off the cuff advice about how important it is to stay in contact with your real and potential clients. I took his advice and kept in contact with him and 6 months later got a call to do their updated corporate photos and website.
In the process of doing that I have now landed another contract with a husband of one of the other employees helping with his company’s website.
My wife, Linda, took this while waiting in the ‘green room’ for me to finish the interview on ‘Good Day Tulsa’. It is a morning show that follows Good Morning America here in town. I was being interviewed about my napkin being in Time Magazine and the napkin story behind it all.
The best part was that the interviewer, Kristin Dickerson, agreed to let me do a photo collage of her for my ‘Velveteen Woman’ project!
My local newspaper ran these two articles about the napkin drawings today. I feel pretty lucky that people have caught on to the story and the napkins!
The video was taken down long ago but here is a screenshot. I was interviewed by a local TV station about the Obama napkin and the napkin story in general.
Here is the evidence we found early Christmas morning that Santa came to our house. The cookies were eaten, the milk dranken and one puzzle piece was tooken. Can you find the piece that is missing?
