Accretion

Cessation ©2009 All rights reserved.

The Accretion Series is best described by the definition of the word itself.
accretion: the process of growth or increase, typically by the accumulation of additional layers or matter.

More of the "Accretion" series here.

My first magazine feature!

I am honored that three of my pieces have been featured in the premier issue of Bluecanvas magazine along with some amazing artists.

The artists featured in the magazine only skim the surface of the incredible art on the bluecanvas website. If you are interested in the magazine you can find out more here.

My Bluecanvas profile.

Finally!

I finally finished the new website.  I'm much happier with the new look.

A huge thanks to the guys at indexhibit.org for what they do.  They have created an amazing platform for artists to create their own professional looking site with just minimal knowledge in website design.  Plus, just looking at other websites from other participants is so inspiring.

Editing The Past

Sun Day ©2009 All rights reserved.

Editing The Past is a series created from the hundreds of photos in my personal collection of family photos dating back to 1960 (long before I was born). Each of the scenes depicted in these works are created by clipping parts from several photos and recreating a new scene.

You can see more from the "Editing The Past" series here.

Misfortune

Black Ice ©2009 All rights reserved.

The Misfortune Series takes a darkly humorous look at some unfortunate events that are in the process of unfolding, changing the lives of those involved.

There is plenty more Misfortune here.

Commentary Series

The Beginning ©2009 All rights reserved.

Each piece in the Commentary series illustrates a single theme through photo manipulation. The titles are very important in these works, as each one is built whimsically around a word or phrase.

You can explore more of the Commentary series here.

Flowers

(from "The Impressionists" series)

I get a lot of questions about these three pieces. Regardless of how they look, they are 100% digital. I used LOTS of photos of mold, rust, and paint all mixed together to achieve the effect of some of my real paintings.

Expansion ©2008 All rights reserved.

In Bloom ©2008 All rights reserved.

Release ©2008 All rights reserved.

The Idea Man

The Idea Man © 2008 All rights reserved.

(from "The Impressionists" series)

A visual interpretation of how the artist's head feels when creativity is flowing. These are the good times, when there are more than enough ideas to choose from.

The Impressionists

The Pond ©2009 All rights reserved.

As the title of this series suggests, these works were created in an Impressionistic style. However, The Impressionists are not paintings in the traditional sense. There is no real paint and no canvas. These are manipulated photographs of textures such as paint, rust, mold and bird droppings arranged to give only an impression of each subject.

Words and the possibility of their double meaning is a theme that runs through many of my pieces. For these works, it is the series title that is a play on words. These pieces are not only innocently mocking the style of the Impressionists, but are only impressions of real paintings as well.

More of this series can be found here.

The Movement of Thought

The Movement of Thought ©2009 All rights reserved.

This series attempts to illustrate movement of our concealed thoughts and energies. For more from this series visit "The Movement of Thought" section on my website.

Music And Art Part 2 - Quartet Pounder

I mentioned in the last "Music And Art" post that I have many friends that are musicians. Beginning in 2006 several of them would get together from time to time for improv sessions. Anyone was welcome and there would often be ten or more experimental musicians involved. Being the wife of one of these musicians I would travel along and, although I enjoyed the music immensely, I found myself a bit bored.

My solution was to bring my laptop along and make the best of the time by working on artwork. Over time this became a standard for the improv nights and I got better at using the music to fuel creativity and immediately interpret the moment visually in Photoshop.

Three of the more Dada influenced musicians developed a smaller, more refined idea for improv music based on the artwork of Francis Bacon. For each session a Bacon piece would be chosen for musical interpretation and I would then create a new piece of artwork for the moment.

We called ourselves "The Quartet Pounder". The name was derived over silly conversations based on the word "bacon".

You can here the music here...

www.myspace.com/thepounderquartet

A sampling of the artwork is below and you can see more at http://www.flickr.com/photos/mfortune/sets/72157603791071699/

Quartet Pounder 8.19.06c ©2006 All rights reserved.

Quartet Pounder 8.19.06b ©2006 All rights reserved.

Quartet Pounder 8.19.06 ©2006 All rights reserved.

Quartet Pounder 8.4.06b ©2006 All rights reserved.

Music And Art Part 1 - Paw Of Zing

I'm hoping to create an ongoing series about music and art together.

I use the inspiration of music in all of my art and just my life in general. I have been obsessed with music as far back as I could remember. I am married to a musician and I would say that 98% of my friends are musicians. I am very lucky to have such creative friends. I find that the music that my friends create is sometimes the best inspiration for my own creativity.

For this first installment of "Music And Art" I want to introduce two of my very creative friends Elisa and Scott aka "Paw Of Zing". You can hear their music here...

www.myspace.com/pawofzing

This is the creation that their music inspired...

Paw Of Zing ©2008 All rights reserved.

Early Works

Visit my website for a sampling of my earliest Photoshop work from 2000-1997.

First post... The Philosophy

Post No Garde is art, music, fashion and any form of creative thought that was influenced by the No Garde movement. However, the No Garde movement never actually happened.

The No Garde movement was only a spark of an idea in one person's head. For fear of it becoming only a passing trend, it was never defined or described. Never put into words or action. Aborted immediately, not only for the sake of purity, but for something better, newer, stronger, untouchable.

Post No Garde pays homage No Garde's failed potential. Moving forward without beginning. Starting at the end. Immortalizing only the spark of creativity. Influenced by the ideas of the past, not their results. An evolutionary jump in original thought.

Regurgitating the same trend for every new generation has created artists that should have never been and hidden the true innovators of our time. Post No Garde says its time to break the retro cycle.

Challenge yourself to come up with something completely unique, something that's never been done before.

Have an original idea and immediately go beyond it. Push it to the next level before it's ever known to anyone.

Don't imitate your influences, but be inspired by their acts of creativity.

Take notice of the fads and counteract them.

Post No Garde has jumped the track and is traveling at random, out of control.

The art to be posted on this blog does not in any way define Post No Garde. The creativity behind it does.