December Collage Series #12 - Dark Heart

I set myself the challenge to do an abstract collage or collage painting a day during the #ArtAdventCalendar social media event in December 2023, exploring colors, shapes, patterns, scales and formats, using painted or printed papers and acrylic paint or ink. If or as some of these turn into finished pieces I will add them to this series.
"Dark Heart", named after the central black piece, comes in red, green, blue-green, blue-gray and black and a variety of regular and irregular patterning and ornaments as well as strongly textured collage pieces.

This artwork is offered by Western Exposure

Originally from Northern Germany, I have been living on a small farm in the West of Ireland for many years. I love to be creative, to create new things, be it arts and crafts or in image form. A few years ago I started to create digital works, based on my photographs or purely in Photoshop - the latter mostly as abstract works. Recently I have also started working with acrylic paints. I like to "play" with colours and digital effects.
My inspiration comes mainly from my immediate rural, rustic surroundings. So I often use distressed textures, plants, my farm animals, the sea, earth colours. When the often grey skies here get to me, I sometimes resort to brighter colours to compensate.
If you purchased one of my art prints, it'd be great if you shared a photo of your purchase in its 'new home'. Find me on Instagram or Mastodon.

ps. For Reasons: My digital art is made by me in a 2012 version of Photoshop (CS6), not by AI. My take on generative AI art is that it is soulless 'instant art', devoid of graft and craft. More importantly, in my mind it also constitutes mass copyright infringement, as billions of images available online (including my own) have been siphoned into the underlying databases from which the AI images are concocted without the creatives' knowledge and consent, or indeed any recompense.

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