My Technique

I combine digital photography, digital collage and painting techniques to create the unique pieces of art you see on this site. I use image-editing software to mimic the darkroom environment and layer photos into a digital collage. I paint using computer software, a palette and a digital stylus. And I use pixels as my paints. The finished product is archival-quality, printed on fine-art, cotton-rag watercolour paper using inks that, like paints, can last well over 100 years (or more).

Digital art is just like any other art form – it allows me to express my own vision of form, colour and composition. It just uses different tools and is much more than simply “applying a technique” in the computer or “Photoshopping” it.

“Integrated digital art” – the mixed media of the digital art world – was first defined by the Digital Fine Arts Society of New Mexico in 2002.