Lisle Drake currently resides in the Hill Country of Texas. Drake writes, "Alchemy is the art of transformation of base elements into precious new forms, and each of my works represents one aspect or another of that magical art... I've been an artist all my adult life, working in a wide range of media from pen and ink on paper to batik and other techniques on fabric. I've been using the computer as both a tool and medium since my first 128K Mac Classic in 1985." Drake gets most of her ideas through dreams, and her dreams tend to run in series, sometimes over many years. Each time a dream occurs Drake finds something new in the dream and spends a lot of time capturing these memories either on paper or working directly in the machine. These memories, which fill hundreds of sketch books and computer files, are the raw material from which her finished works are made.
Drake says "I work principally with Photoshop, Painter and Illustrator, and my input devices are a high resolution scanner and a Wacom tablet. As I begin work on a new piece I make decisions about which elements are already in my archives and which will have to be created new. If new elements have to be created I might sketch the piece on paper and scan it in, or I might begin working in a Painter or Illustrator file using my Wacom tablet, or I might grab an old digital file and begin manipulating the element directly in Photoshop."
The work below is titled "The Elements of My Thoughts Are the Alchemy of My Dreams"
Excellent post... great work.
ReplyDeleteThis is an interesting piece, it seems like the artist is portraying an individual who is busy, and usually wrapped up in multiple tasks.
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