Awesome - love your colors

Wonderful, great colours. xx

Another cool piece carol I love it!!

Amazing art work. God bless.

This comment won't be as long, as I commented on the first of this series last night; and much of what I wrote applies to this. But there are changes here. For one (of course), the hues. This is more homogenous in its hues; there is more than one, for sure, but they unite 'tonally' (I never know if that word applies in art the way it does in fashion: but i mean colors within a similar tonal range). And it's fascinating how hue makes some areas recede and others come forth: The seahorse has some very different designs as a result of that recession/emergence, even though the designs are identical (from what I can see). It's a more contemplative piece too, more of a reflective mood. And you seem to have brushed or taken out some strokes and shapes from the grasses/weeds in the water. The deep blues have eradicated them, swallowed them up, making the background less active and more nocturnal, more inward. And you've changed the bubbles, I think---right? I mean, some of them are in different places (unless I"m not seeing well), and you've given almost an eyeball to them, a cornea that makes them look like little seeing eyes. Or cells with nuclei. Small changes but delightful...

With all these blues, everything is suddenly more inward and reflective---amazing what a wash-over of one hue can do. But it's still the same vision, and harmonious with your text. And this one has a more physical art feel---I mean in the strokes, etc. Somehow this feels more like physical media on touchable paper. I don't know why that is, it just feels more like physical art. And, I have no idea how you combine acrylics with digital, I mean, do you go back and forth---like, printing the piece, painting over it, scanning it, working on it in your computer, printing it again, etc? All I know is, it sounds both fun and painstaking. And one can feel the paint here, and also the digital work. All in all, a beautiful series.

Another delightful and very insightful comment, Mark. First, to answer your question about how I combine acrylic with digital. In this artwork I painted some of the background using acrylics. I also do this with watercolor, too. Then I scanned the art and brought it into photoshop, where I combine the painted acrylic background with digital painting and other techniques, creating a mixed medium final work. When I output the print, I sometimes adhere it to a board and continue painting with gels, adding texture. I will soon be working with and learning alcohol inks, and will create a background, or texture, or who knows what with the inks, and then combine it with digital painting. I had a lot of fun with the seahorse. First I did him in orange, and then I wanted to see him in blue, for, and as you so eloquently said, a restful and inward mood. And yes, I did change some of the plants, and bubbles, too. How observant of you. And those bubbles are like little eyes, like the seahorse eyes, looking all around their world. Thanks so much for your comments that always inspire me.