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Well, Here I am again after almost two years at Symantec. I thought I was home safe, but here we are in another recession. Oh, yeah, they say it's over, but they said that after the last "jobless recovery" from the dotcom crash of 2001. Remember? Then 9/11 happened, and things got even worse. It took five years for the jobs to come back. So, now as before, I take refuge in my books and paintings, and try to keep up with the latest flavor of javascript. It's jQuery right now, and I am re-building my site for the 8th time in a new script. Don't anybody lecture me on "staying current", because I have been doing quite a bit of that for the past twenty years or more. Anyway, this blog started as a place to post my paintings, but I've decided to also put up some of my digital work. I love Photoshop!
After the dotcom crash of 2001, I began to paint again...
My MA in painting never did come in very handy in Silicon Valley. I had always made a living as a technical artist. But after the dotcom crash, the jobs for technical artists appeared to be gone as well, so why not do what I had always wanted to do? Paint!
I had gone back to school in 1998 to study web design, because that's where all of the graphic design jobs were. By 1999 I was at Oracle doing HTML. But by 2001, the internet game appeared to be over. Every programmer on the planet was working on Y2K (remember?) and everyone else was building web pages. Then, 911 happened, and everything fell off a cliff. Now what? I thought I might as well do some paintings...
To see more of my work and purchasing info, go to:
fine-art.com/marte8
I also have free postcards for anyone who is interested. Just email me!
After pelicans and egrets, I started to paint other birds. These owl paintings were opportunities to paint beautiful birds in breathtaking landscapes. I can't imagine a more perfect combination of subjects for an artist to paint than birds and landscapes. Everyone should try it! To see more of my work, read on, or go to http://www.fine-art.com/marte8
In 2006, I started to paint owls. I painted the Great Snowy White owl first, then the Great Grey. They were my Christmas cards for 2006. (24" x 48")
The eagle, like the wolf, is a favorite subject for artists who love to paint wildlife in the snow. I call this Glacier Eagle. It was my Christmas card for 2005.
The wolf family was painted in 2003. Lots of artists were painting wolves, an endangered species that has been reintroduced to the wild places where they were hunted nearly to extinction. They are to me a symbol of hope and redemption.
Since it's Christmas, I thought I would post my Christmas cards here from years past. This one is from 2004.
