“Colorised Self Port in Nine Grid Collage” [7th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork photography, 2560 x 2560 pixels.
Fans of my artworks will appreciate I am experimenting with Colorisation through some of my portfolio. “Colorised Self Port in Nine Grid Collage” is an Andy Warhol inspired piece.
Besides being a genuine Self Portrait of myself this artwork features many themes. Racial/cultural diversity, equality, climate change/conservation, well being, health and fitness to name some themes I personally think of viewing this work.
Of course, most artists experiment with colours throughout their artistic journey. Therefore the visual effect of an artwork is important too in gaining interest with communicating ideas. I would say my artwork includes my personality and emotions represented by these colour choices also.
Please enjoy my “Colorised Self Port in Nine Grid Collage” which includes Green, Black, Vivid Violet, Mid Tone, SolarScape, Polarised, Blue, Original Self Port and Red.
“Geometric Lines #1 – Nine Grid Colorised Collage Animation” [5th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork composed of nine unique digital pieces, 1200 x 1200 pixels.
“Geometric Lines #1 – Nine Grid Colorised Collage Animation” makes for a visual treat. You try to follow the pattern of the colours. There is a logical order to the movement of the artworks. Yet the visual is too seemingly fast to calculate, order and process.
“Geometric Lines #1 – Nine Grid Colorised Collage Squares” [5th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork composed of nine unique digital pieces, 1200 x 1200 pixels.
“Geometric Lines #1 – Nine Grid Colorised Collage Squares” shown above is the second Collage I made. This was the first Collage I was entirely happy with the visual. I will show you the first Collage, lastly, in this blog article for you to get an idea of the quality standard I like within my works.
Next image is the Circles version of the same nine grid piece, here:
“Geometric Lines #1 – Nine Grid Colorised Collage Circles” [5th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork composed of nine unique digital pieces, 1200 x 1200 pixels.
“Geometric Lines #1 – Nine Grid Colorised Collage Circles” softens the visuals in my opinion. The subtle black space allows the viewer a certain distance of separation from artwork to artwork. This likely provides greater ability to process the details. Whilst additionally confining each artwork to fill its individual paradigm.
Let’s take a look at the actual detail for each piece shall we?
Here is Dark Magenta, immediately below:
“Geometric Lines #1 – Dark Magenta Embossed” [5th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork, 2354 x 3370 pixels.
Isn’t this simply gorgeous as a colour and artwork.
“Geometric Lines #1 – Marmalade Orange” [5th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork, 2357 x 3383 pixels.
Above is Marmalade Orange. This provides a lightness of texture to the other pieces in the collage.
“Geometric Lines #1 – Silver Yellow Embossed” [5th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork, 2354 x 3370 pixels.
Above we see Silver Yellow Embossed. This artwork draws attention to the other works through its neutral blending elements. It was the first embossed piece. I was literally, ‘goodness, this is absolutely perfect!’
“Geometric Lines #1 – Turquoise Blue” [5th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork, 2351 x 3383 pixels.
Above, Turquoise Blue is very loud and visually attracting.
“Geometric Lines #1 – Dark Olive Yellow Embossed” [5th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork, 2354 x 3370 pixels.
Dark Olive Yellow Embossed (above) just has the wow factor, to the power of 10×100. The geometric lines in this piece look delicious.
“Geometric Lines #1 – Brightened Yellow” [5th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork, 2354 x 3383 pixels.
Brightened Yellow is cheery and happy, shown above. This work adds immense contrast to the other pieces.
“Geometric Lines #1 – Perfection Green Yellow Embossed” [5th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork, 2354 x 3370 pixels.
Perfection Green Yellow Embossed (above) is exactly that. Perfect. I love this colour!
“Geometric Lines #1 – Original Blue Ink” [5th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork, 2357 x 3383 pixels.
Original Blue Ink, I could not leave this original artwork out from the Collage and Animation. As I wrote before in my much earlier blog article [link here Geometric Lines #1 and #2], my Original Geometric Lines #1 and #2 are unique, hand drawn works I made.
Every artist has an instinct, a feeling as to what is art to them. Geometric Lines #1 and #2 precisely define art to me. Somewhat spontaneous, technical to a degree, visually stimulating intellectually/emotionally, inspired of a kind, a ‘from within‘ quality.
I encourage you to try to emulate this style on a piece of paper. Make your own hand drawn Geometric Lines. In effect this is a learning work at school with spirals and mathematical drawing tools.
Fun.
“Geometric Lines #1 – Dark Blue Embossed” [5th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork, 2354 x 3370 pixels.
Dark Blue Embossed, above. I carefully hone the colours, contrasts and tones in my digital works. Dark Blue Embossed reveals the culmination of a colour to the nth degree. For each and every digital artwork you see here I fine tuned the tonal ranges to within one point of one hundred and eighty points, through three finite variables.
Technically there were approximately 325,500 tonal variances within the software datasets I utilised.
“If it is art, I am in”
As promised here is the first Grid Collage I made:
“Geometric Lines #1 – Fifteen Grid Colorised Collage Squares [version One]” [5th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork composed of fifteen unique digital pieces, 2560 x 2560 pixels.
“Geometric Lines #1 – Fifteen Grid Colorised Collage Squares” didn’t quite have the wow factor for me. However, I retained this artwork for publishing here on my blog. I wanted viewers to see the exacting visual qualities I seek.
It is still a good piece including a Pinkish-Red (original) with three additional Colorised Silver Embossed versions.
This is the beautiful Pinkish-Red version which I do love to be honest:
“Geometric Lines #1 – Pinkish Red” [5th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork, 2357 x 3383 pixels.
Date is now 7th August 2023 (two days after publishing this article). I decided I must perfect my Fifteen Grid artwork. Here is the result of my best repositioned Fifteen Grid Colorised Collage scheme:
“Geometric Lines #1 – Fifteen Grid Colorised Second Collage Squares” [7th August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork composed of fifteen unique digital pieces, 2560 x 2560 pixels.
I am now delighted with my new Fifteen Grid piece entitled “Geometric Lines #1 – Fifteen Grid Colorised Collage Squares [version Two]”.
My advice to new artmakers is ‘if you feel you can make an artwork the way you want, keep practising and experimenting until you do’. I promise you will be happy with the results of your efforts.
Beyond everything I hope you enjoy my new artworks too.
“Charcoal Seismic Galaxies #1 – Colorised Collage” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from original drawing in H, HB, 4B, 8B and charcoal (s) (h) pencils with charcoal stick for contrast detailing, including underdrawn geometric lines in (HB) pencils, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digital artwork image 2560 x 2560 pixels.
I carefully moved each individual artwork into place within the montage to form “Charcoal Seismic Galaxies #1 – Colorised Collage”. My Colorised composition is perfect [to me]. Every artwork colour suits its position within the grid. Bringing out the very best from one another as a uniformly stunning work.
The three vertical Seismic Waves from my original pencils/charcoal drawing are condensed into each square to produce a natural continuation of the adjacent work. This creates an optical illusion pleasing to the visual effect.
Technicalities required particular skill with my attention to the very fine details.
“Charcoal Seismic Galaxies #1 – Dark Violet” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from original drawing in H, HB, 4B, 8B and charcoal (s) (h) pencils with charcoal stick for contrast detailing, including underdrawn geometric lines in (HB) pencils, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digital artwork image 2560 x 2560 pixels.
Dark Violet is complex vibration. Jazz, soul, confident.
“Charcoal Seismic Galaxies #1 – Monochromatic Constellation” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from original drawing in H, HB, 4B, 8B and charcoal (s) (h) pencils with charcoal stick for contrast detailing, including underdrawn geometric lines in (HB) pencils, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digital artwork image 2560 x 2560 pixels.
Monochromatic Constellation speaks wonderment. Profound sights, early beginnings, beautiful simplicity.
“Charcoal Seismic Galaxies #1 – Rubia Red with Yellow” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from original drawing in H, HB, 4B, 8B and charcoal (s) (h) pencils with charcoal stick for contrast detailing, including underdrawn geometric lines in (HB) pencils, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digital artwork image 2560 x 2560 pixels.
Rubia Red with Yellow says alive, free-living and fun. Rubia Red is perfectly at home with Yellow.
“Charcoal Seismic Galaxies #1 – X-rayed Slate” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from original drawing in H, HB, 4B, 8B and charcoal (s) (h) pencils with charcoal stick for contrast detailing, including underdrawn geometric lines in (HB) pencils, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digital artwork image 2560 x 2560 pixels.
X-rayed Slate is Beyond Words [to me]. Even as I made this the astounding beauty shone brightly as I gently produced the precise tone for the work you see here.
“Charcoal Seismic Galaxies #1 – Dark Leafy Blue-Green” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from original drawing in H, HB, 4B, 8B and charcoal (s) (h) pencils with charcoal stick for contrast detailing, including underdrawn geometric lines in (HB) pencils, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digital artwork image 2560 x 2560 pixels.
Dark Leafy Blue-Green is the sea with the trees. Necessary, life, natural peaceful joy.
“Charcoal Seismic Galaxies #1 – Silver Embossed” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from original drawing in H, HB, 4B, 8B and charcoal (s) (h) pencils with charcoal stick for contrast detailing, including underdrawn geometric lines in (HB) pencils, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digital artwork image 2560 x 2560 pixels.
Silver Embossed likes being well known. It is impossible not to be drawn to Silver Embossed for intellect and secrets of the Universe.
“Charcoal Seismic Galaxies #1 – Bedarkened Red” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from original drawing in H, HB, 4B, 8B and charcoal (s) (h) pencils with charcoal stick for contrast detailing, including underdrawn geometric lines in (HB) pencils, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digital artwork image 2560 x 2560 pixels.
Bedarkened Red is mysterious, secretive and alluring. Warm, exciting, much admired.
“Charcoal Seismic Galaxies #1 – Contrasted Black” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from original drawing in H, HB, 4B, 8B and charcoal (s) (h) pencils with charcoal stick for contrast detailing, including underdrawn geometric lines in (HB) pencils, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digital artwork image 2560 x 2560 pixels.
Contrasted Black is humble. The queen bee ensuring the others keep to their objectives.
“Charcoal Seismic Galaxies #1 – Light-Dark Leafy Green” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from original drawing in H, HB, 4B, 8B and charcoal (s) (h) pencils with charcoal stick for contrast detailing, including underdrawn geometric lines in (HB) pencils, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digital artwork image 2560 x 2560 pixels.
Light-Dark Leafy Green compliments Dark Leafy Blue-Green. They art harmonious friends forever, bringing you happiness wherever they go.
I hope you have enjoyed my artworks, themes and descriptive ideas within this blog article.
“MΣ [Starry version] – Colorised Collage” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, secondary digital artworks from my sketch [“MΣ”] using 3H, HB and 3B pencils, original sketch on A4 135gsm Artist’s paper, digital artwork 2560 x 2560 pixels
“MΣ [Starry version] – Colorised Collage” is made from ten individually unique colorised digital versions of my earlier ‘Starry version’ [25th June 2021] artwork.
Please let me introduce you to the ten unique symbolic ensembles here:
“MΣ [Starry version] – Bright-Strong Blue” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, secondary digital artworks from my sketch [“MΣ”] using 3H, HB and 3B pencils, original sketch on A4 135gsm Artist’s paper, digital artwork 2560 x 2560 pixels.
“MΣ [Starry version] – Soft Magenta” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, secondary digital artworks from my sketch [“MΣ”] using 3H, HB and 3B pencils, original sketch on A4 135gsm Artist’s paper, digital artwork 2560 x 2560 pixels
‘Hi there, my name is Soft Magenta. Would you like me to help you with your furnishings?’.
I love humour.
“MΣ [Starry version] – Lime Green” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, secondary digital artworks from my sketch [“MΣ”] using 3H, HB and 3B pencils, original sketch on A4 135gsm Artist’s paper, digital artwork 2560 x 2560 pixels.
‘Yes, I AM Lime Green. Loud and flamboyant.’
“MΣ [Starry version] – Vivid Cyan” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, secondary digital artworks from my sketch [“MΣ”] using 3H, HB and 3B pencils, original sketch on A4 135gsm Artist’s paper, digital artwork 2560 x 2560 pixels.
‘My name is Cyan, Vivid Cyan. Let’s party ^^ ~~ ^^ ~~.’
“MΣ [Starry version] – Light-Dark Grey” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, secondary digital artworks from my sketch [“MΣ”] using 3H, HB and 3B pencils, original sketch on A4 135gsm Artist’s paper, digital artwork 2560 x 2560 pixels
‘Light-Dark Grey here. My formulas art incalculable, thine direction unfathomable. Please do pour me some spring water, thanks. Busy. Saving the world, byyye.’
“MΣ [Starry version] – Bright-Dark Orange” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, secondary digital artworks from my sketch [“MΣ”] using 3H, HB and 3B pencils, original sketch on A4 135gsm Artist’s paper, digital artwork 2560 x 2560 pixels.
‘Bright-Dark Orange at your service. Let’s make some art.’
“MΣ [Starry version] – Pinks” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, secondary digital artworks from my sketch [“MΣ”] using 3H, HB and 3B pencils, original sketch on A4 135gsm Artist’s paper, digital artwork 2560 x 2560 pixels.
‘You say you love me… then show me how you feel, without words.’
“MΣ [Starry version] – Light-Dark Blue” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, secondary digital artworks from my sketch [“MΣ”] using 3H, HB and 3B pencils, original sketch on A4 135gsm Artist’s paper, digital artwork 2560 x 2560 pixels.
‘I see you have lighted upon me.. Light-Dark Blue here… Oh, I am much much colder than that!’
“MΣ [Starry version] – Yellow Gold” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, secondary digital artworks from my sketch [“MΣ”] using 3H, HB and 3B pencils, original sketch on A4 135gsm Artist’s paper, digital artwork 2560 x 2560 pixel
‘You love my decor? Wait until you see my special collection.’
“MΣ [Starry version] – Darkest Red” [2nd August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, secondary digital artworks from my sketch [“MΣ”] using 3H, HB and 3B pencils, original sketch on A4 135gsm Artist’s paper, digital artwork 2560 x 2560 pixels.
‘I know… You feel strongly you say?… Good, it’s the best way to feel.’
Personally I see these artworks on slate with natural pigmentation like crushed minerals, stones and crystals. The original pencils work included the idea for an equation, cryptography, Universal purity, Orion the Hunter [natural constellations], molecular detail and telescopic beauty.
I love every Colorised digital artwork I made here.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Colorised Collage‘ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
I made a colorised Collage to show the beauty of our natural world. Each butterfly you see within the collage is a unique individual digital artwork.
The intricacy required for these artworks is all the more satisfying following the results. Personal quote: “this is a minute technical detail, however, that i got the two hairlike trails on the butterfly’s tail makes those works perfection to me“.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Blue Light‘ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Blue Light – I imagine this as the wings of dragonflies.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Reddish Brown‘ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Reddish Brown is soup and strength.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Red Tipped Orange’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Red Tipped Orange is a firefly and the madness of manmade flames.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Blue-Green Magenta’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Blue-Green Magenta [to me] is a vinyl album cover with a fictional creatures wings.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Greyish-Black’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Greyish-Black is a beauty I try to comprehend.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Muted Grey’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Muted Grey is the voice of an angel you cannot hear, yet it never stops calling.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Orange Tipped Green’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Orange Tipped Green is fruity drinks.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Mosaic Blue-Green’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Mosaic Blue-Green [to me] is Beyond Words. Pure chance through the construct of careful skill.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Dark Lined Veil’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Dark Lined Veil flutters around a wedding celebration.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Magenta Tipped-Strong Red’ [1st August 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm] made in June 2020.
Magenta Tipped-Strong Red is a delicate proclamation to the hierarchy of planet Earth.. to do.. to change things for the future.
‘Butterfly with Seismic Waves – Original’ [June 2020] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, iron gall ink sketch on lined notebook paper [80 gsm].
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – COLLAGE” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 2560 x 2560 pixels.
Inspired by Andy Warhol I decided to produce colour versions from my “Galaxies Reverberation #3″ series of works. I carefully worked with computer editing software to produce the most vibrant colour contrasts and definitions.
Whilst these were all created to be visually stunning, I specifically chose representations to give each embossed work its own personality. The original work has much meaning to the symbology, therefore I retained certain characteristics within each individual piece.
I envisage these as beautiful naturally dyed aluminium plate embossed art pieces.
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Natural Turquoise” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Natural turquoise is an opaque, blue-to-green mineral.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Light” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Light or visible light is electromagnetic radiation that can be perceived by the human eye.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Bright Green” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“bright greens emerged as a group of environmentalists who believe that radical changes are needed in the economic and political operation of society in order to make it sustainable”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Red” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Red is the color at the long wavelength end of the visible spectrum of light, next to orange and opposite violet.”
(*please see my note below regarding the definition for this colour)
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Silver” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Silver is a chemical element with the symbol Ag and atomic number 47.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Pastel Blue” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Pastels or pastel colors belong to a pale family of colors, which, when described in the HSV color space, have high value and low saturation.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Dark Blue” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Dark blue is a shade of the standard (h = 240°) blue.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Purple” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Purple is a color similar in appearance to violet light.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Light Orange” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Orange is the color in the visible spectrum between red and yellow with a wavelength around 585 – 620 nm.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Lime Green” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Lime is a yellowish green color. It is the color that is halfway between the color chartreuse green and yellow on the color wheel.”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Darkness” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Darkness, the direct opposite of lightness, is defined as a lack of illumination”
“Galaxies Reverberation #3 – Strong Magenta” [28th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from the original drawing in charcoal (s) (m) (h) pencils with 8B detailing, signed in black ink on A3 250g/m² mixed media paper, digitally edited artwork image 3690 x 2667 pixels.
“Magenta is a color made up of equal parts of red and blue light.”
I hope you love each and every piece I made with intellectual effort and artistic inspiration.
(* regarding the artwork ‘Red’, its hex colour value is #ff5500, RGB value is (255,85,0). #ff5500 hex color red value is 255, green value is 85 and the blue value of its RGB is 0.
The process color (four color CMYK) of #ff5500 color hex is 0.00, 0.67, 1.00, 0.00. Color #ff5500 contains mainly RED color. I appreciate some viewers perceive this as international orange or pure orange. Personally I much rather perceive the colour #ff5500 nearer to the red spectrum with some orange for descriptive purposes.)
All quoted words for the artworks colours are courtesy of Wikipedia.
The Unfathomable Artist is not affiliated to any political party, activist group or any populist movement.
All colours were chosen without prior reading from the quoted Wikipedia pages. It is all pure chance colour selection beyond the artistic visual qualities.
“Lion at Rest – Original” [24th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with H, HB, 4B and charcoal pencils, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2475 x 2934 pixels.
Immediately shown above is the Original pencils drawing of “Lion at Rest”. I then proceeded to make five digital artworks from the Original. Four individual colour compositions in embossed format – ‘Silver’, ‘Green’, ‘Blue’ and ‘Black&White’.
The fifth piece formed ‘Collage’ which included all four embossed colour compositions together at the four corners with the ‘Original’ placed in five of the central Collage squares. You can see these artworks in this blog article below.
My pencils drawing was made within 32 minutes starting with a blank canvas without prior study.
The Lion lives at Chester Zoo in the UK.
My embossed versions are inspired by Andy Warhol’s Endangered Species artworks.
“Lion at Rest – Silver” [24th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original drawing with H, HB, 4B and charcoal pencils, digitally edited image 2409 x 2868 pixels.“Lion at Rest – Green” [24th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original drawing with H, HB, 4B and charcoal pencils, digitally edited image 2409 x 2868 pixels.“Lion at Rest – Blue” [24th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original drawing with H, HB, 4B and charcoal pencils, digitally edited image 2409 x 2868 pixels.“Lion at Rest – Black & White” [24th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my original drawing with H, HB, 4B and charcoal pencils, digitally edited image 2409 x 2868 pixels.
Here is my beautiful Collage version, immediately below:
“Lion at Rest – Collage” [24th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from my drawing with H, HB, 4B and charcoal pencils, digitally edited image 3264 x 3264 pixels.
I feel that “Lion at Rest – Collage” is such a lovely, strikingly stunning artwork, I hope you do too.
The originating picture for this Lion was taken on 22nd July 2023 at 1449hrs. Here it is:
“Lion at Rest – Photograph” [22nd July 2023, 1449hrs] courtesy of the person whom took the photograph.
I hope you enjoy all these Conservation inspired artworks.
“Cygnet follows Swan – Original” [19th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, drawing with HB, 8B and charcoal pencils, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2884 x 2465 pixels.
These two beautiful swans graciously passed me as I walked by, just beyond the Nature Reserve in a leisurely grass filled area. Whilst passing I found their way utterly enthralling and simply had to take a photograph. Immediately I knew this would become a new sketch.
The sketch was made within one hour of starting a blank canvas.
My sketch features row upon row of ‘M’ grasses, an ‘M’ bush (originating in the actual photograph itself, see below), Van Gogh style outlines of the swans (heavily pronounced like fruit in a bowl), whimsical illustrative leafy details and individual character to both the swan and the cygnet.
I made three digital artworks from the Original sketch: EMBOSSED, STARRY NIGHT and COLOUR DOTS.
Here is the first digital artwork made, ‘EMBOSSED’:
“Cygnet follows Swan – EMBOSSED” [19th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from an Original drawing, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2808 x 2333 pixels.
‘EMBOSSED’ has ideas of life paths, our spirit, ascension, soul and body. I carefully aligned the 3D overlay imagery at approximately 30 degrees, level with their first bodies legs. This gives a sense of upward-forward motion. My signature, the ‘M’ grasses ‘writings’ and the ‘M’ bush continues with this 3D overlay theme.
Each and every digital artwork I produce is an intricately balanced artwork piece in its own way. Personally I feel each digital piece I make should represent one unique artwork in a specified physical format.
For instance, print, sculpture or textile.
“Cygnet follows Swan – STARRY NIGHT” [19th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from an Original drawing, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2884 x 2465 pixels.
‘STARRY NIGHT’ is a beautiful colour rendition from my Original sketch. I felt the leaves above the swans heads had somehow become the sky. For my love of Vincent’s art I had to honour his works in the title of this piece.
The blue-green colour scheme is delightful, I loved this as I played with a varying palette to create the nicest looking composition for this piece. I see this as a rug, cushions, curtains or tapestry! It looks so very textile-like.
“Cygnet follows Swan – COLOUR DOTS” [19th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork from an Original drawing, signed in black ink on 280gsm 250mm x 300mm gesso primed canvas [pad], digitally edited image 2884 x 2465 pixels.
‘COLOUR DOTS’ represents technology and innovative human thinking. The colour details within this piece can be seen by zooming in on the image.
If you cannot zoom in, I will show you. First though let’s take a look at the original picture itself. The originating photograph was taken on 11th July 2023 at 1841hrs, shown immediately below:
“Cygnet follows Swan – photograph” [11th July 2023, 1841hrs] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist with smartphone. (Please CLICK on this image if not shown as a rectangular image)
A very cute scene of adult swan guiding its cygnet, exactly as composed in my sketch. They both seemed oblivious to me as I passed by them. The adult swan was focused getting to wherever it wanted. The adult did notice me though.
Shown below is three unedited zoomed images I cropped from ‘COLOUR DOTS’ to show you the beauty within beauty of an artwork:
“Cygnet follows Swan COLOUR DOTS Body Composition #2” (Please CLICK on this image if not shown as a rectangular image)
My pencil lines become abstract ideas: a topological map, computer machine code, engineering macrocosm, an ancient settlement. Whatever you want this to be.
With all three cropped versions you can now clearly see the colour dots! Here are the exact hex colours #FF34FF (magenta), #0CFF0C (green), #3737FF (blue) and #5DFFFF (aqua) just to highlight the main colours.
“Cygnet follows Swan COLOUR DOTS Grass-Brain Composition #1” (Please CLICK on this image if not shown as a rectangular image)
Grass-Brain looked kind of Matrix-like. This is actually the zoomed head of the swan with grasses overhead!
“Cygnet follows Swan COLOUR DOTS Signature Composition #3” (Please CLICK on this image if not shown as a rectangular image)
In Signature Composition my name is recognisable of form – completely unchanged besides the computer filter used to produce a new work from ‘COLOUR DOTS’. I then manipulate images to make the most pleasing compositions.
I have a professional computing background, therefore it is natural for me to use computer software in the production of my digital works.
I made a similar concept of ‘artworks from an artwork‘ with my oil painting “Creative Mind” in September 2018. For that blog article please click the link here: “Creative Mind” including crops of the full image.
“Angry Owl #2 – Original” by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, pastels, charcoal and acrylic on 10in x 12in canvas pad.
“Angry Owl #2 – Original” is probably a selfie on his smartphone.
“Angry Owl #2 – Digitised” [4th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork.
“Angry Owl #2 – Digitised” found himself in computer circuitry.
“Angry Owl #2 – Black & White” [4th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork.
“Angry Owl #2 – Black & White” walked onto the set of a 1920’s silent movie. Quickly he assumed this cunning mask to conceal his distinctive looks.
“Angry Owl #2 – Pixelated” [4th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork.
Caught up by mistaken identity “Angry Owl #2 – Pixelated” found himself in a Police line-up. ‘Pixelated’ was his disguise so you wouldn’t recognise him.
“Angry Owl #2 – Solarised” [4th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork.
As you can clearly see “Angry Owl #2 – Solarised” turned his face to the Sun. He wasn’t even on holiday at the time.
“Angry Owl #2 – Tracing Paper” [4th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork.
A keen student of H.G. Wells The Invisible Man, “Angry Owl #2 – Tracing Paper” went to art class in high school to perfect blending into any surrounding. I think by now you would all agree he is quite brilliant at camouflage.
“Angry Owl #2 – Montage” [4th July 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork.
“Angry Owl #2 – Montage” was released by secret services in order for the public to formally identify him, amidst all his aliases. We do not know where “Angry Owl #1” is either. Last information we have is that “Angry Owl #1” was placed into a refuse bin for no reason whatsoever.
To help identify “Angry Owl #1” here is the last known photograph:
“Angry Owl #1” [August 2010] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, pastels on board.
Please do not attempt to approach “Angry Owl #1” or “Angry Owl #2” as they are able to horizontally rotate their necks at extreme angles. Also, they are absolutely lethal to harvest mice.
Special skills: Ability to listen to you under one foot of snow.. whilst hovering airborne!
If you find “Angry Owl #1” please contact Matt The Unfathomable Artist as he is willing to trade one of his best currently available sketches for the safe return of “Angry Owl #1”.
“Sunrays in Wildflower Meadow – TRACE” [27th May 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork derived from an original sketch in blue ballpoint ink pen and sunlight yellow pencil.
“Sunrays in Wildflower Meadow – TRACE” finds me thinking about nature, rabbits, animation and music. How about you? What do you think looking at this artwork?
The original sketch (not shown) for these digital artworks in this blog article took me 20 minutes to produce. It was done spontaneously with very quick pen and pencil work to emulate the Van Gogh style for movement.
I am very happy with the artworks and the original, inspired by a Van Gogh drawing. I would like to mention that the artworks are produced from an original sketch and photograph by myself.
The photograph is actually shown at the end of this blog article.
“Sunrays in Wildflower Meadow – Black & White” [27th May 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork derived from an original sketch in blue ballpoint ink pen and sunlight yellow pencil.
“Sunrays in Wildflower Meadow – Black & White” reminds me of space and science-fiction. What about you? How do you feel looking at this artwork?
“Sunrays in Wildflower Meadow – COMMAND” [27th May 2023] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist, digital artwork derived from an original sketch in blue ballpoint ink pen and sunlight yellow pencil.
“Sunrays in Wildflower Meadow – COMMAND” is powerful. I am reminded of 3D structures, electricity and the sense of touch. How about you? Do you have any particular feelings or thoughts as you view this artwork?
“Sunrays in Wildflower Meadow – photograph” [4th July 2022, 1935hrs] by Matt The Unfathomable Artist.
Hopefully I have brought the beauty within this landscape into my sketch and digital artworks, inspiring you in some way.
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