Short video of new artwork graphics with music and sound by Miles VanDermeer aka Quiet Smiles 

The Kinetics of Color and Shape

* In July 2022, while recovering from Covid, I began a new series of digital abstract paintings titled "Color Abstractions." they are somewhere between Bahous-style and Abstract-Expressionist in style. They are designed to both work as wall art and for any screen so as to optimize their digital appearance as NFTs. Which are available as one of ones on Mint Gold Dust.  * I print with an Epson Stylus Pro 3880 printer; the archival Chromium ink gives the color a rich and transparent value that allows me to mix colors as if they were color gels. The printing itself can take a great deal of time because each painting has many colors and responds differently on paper stock. For this show, I have used Hahnemuelle exhibition archival photo rag papers. Each one is 8x8,12x12, and 18x18 Squares. They work well in multiples of one, three, six, and ten. The results have been exciting for me.

Abstraction in C. 00

Chromium Inkjet digital painting on Hahnemuelle brite white cold press paper. 

Abstraction in Č flat. 

Digital painting over a photograph of a facade of a 300 hundred year old building in Sacres Portugal, 

Textures of Portugal 

End of Days    Experimentation is the mother of invention, or so the saying goes. Having started my informal art career as an abstract painter, I now like to incorporate 2D elements into my work, as seen in “End of Days” which was conceived as a painting and later structured into multiple photographic textures. I made some drawings with pastel and colored pencils which I scanned into a digital file, using a digital paintbrush to enhance. Once in Adobe PS, I then created layers to build up the collage. The process of post-editing my photographs in PS and layering them with digital enhancements repeats throughout my work. End of Days used elements from Michael Angelo's Sistine Chapel as a layer. Sometimes, I find inspiration from a photograph that I may have taken years ago. I might start out working on an idea only to have discovered yet another during the process. Blue River is an excellent example of this process. I've started turning my work into digital assets, which I am selling as NFTs (non-fungible tokens). Because my work is digital and original, it lends itself to being an NFT.  In short, my art is based on inspiration, but as ideas only come so often, my time is spent collecting images with my Olympus OM-D E mark three-camera. During the editing process, a vision comes, something inspires me; I start by manipulating the image into a conceptual themed work, and it keeps evoking from there.

End of Day 

42nd Street s a 2D collage now an NFT. Consisting of over fifty layers and multiple photographs. The piece represents a years worth of individual photographs.that I shot and saved for the project. Ive always been focused on New York subway walls and construction site facades. Filled with layer after layer of advertisements urban wall. Passing construction facades and seeing the multiple layers of advertisements, flyers, lost items. I would observe that these walls sometimes looked like organic collages of textures, color and shape. Metropolis has many hand painted elements that give structure and dimension to the collage.

42nd Street 

Time Square, Metropolis, and 42nd St. 
Growing up in​ SoHo ​, New York​, I​ ​ ​drew​ inspiration​ from the detritus of the cities billboards, subways, and walls layered with advertising, flyers, graffiti, weathered by time. Initially, I thought to recreate this look into a painting or collage. Instead, I began photographing and collecting urban textures, establishing a digital album for future work. I taught myself Photoshop in (2001) and began layering my images into digital collages. The three collages titled Time Square, Metropolis, and 42nd Street have over fifty layers each and countless pieces from my collection of urban textures. My first series of collages combined photographic images and hand-painted digital elements and was done over time spanning from 2003-2011. By turning them into NFT’s, we preserve them in our history like fossils. 

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