has been for sale for some time, as you have seen. The maintenance and ongoing development to keep our non-profit and idealistic platform for contemporary art running and safe from hackers etc. costs money that is no longer there. Because of small investments that are necessary now and the running costs, we will have to shut down with a heavy heart at the beginning of summer on June 21.
My Series Talisman Heads is an evolution of my series Totem Heads. Still influenced by African Masks and Moai Monoliths, I pushed the stylization further. Incorporating more abstract geometry into the facial features, I elevated the image mystic. The bright pallet used in rendering these characters adds to their presence where ever they are displayed.
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My series Totem Heads is influenced by African Masks and Moai Monolithic heads of Easter Island. They are stylistic rendering of imaginary mystical faces. The basic sketches are done by hand and then the coloration is done digitally. The idea took form while I doodled in the margins of notebooks, later to evolve into individual characters. If you find yourself talking to them, don’t be surprised if they answer back.
Available for purchase at: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/totem-head-yellow-3-william-calkins.html
My series Sketchworks are an expression of abstract art inspired by jazz improvisation. I listen to jazz and sketch with pencil or pen in black and white and let the melodies and harmonies and chord changes influence my sketching. Every note of an improvised solo is reflected in the marks I make on paper. I try to give visual form to the audio expressions I hear. Whether I’m listening to Traditional jazz, Standards, Cool jazz, Bebop, Hard Bop, Ballads, all styles can be recognized in Sketchworks.
Geo-Ab-Digi Red take 2 is digital fine art inspired by Fabulist short stories. Geometric shapes play out a subtle narrative while floating over textured, surreal terrain. Available for purchase at: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/geo-ab-digi-red-take-2-william-calkins.html
My series Totem Heads is influenced by African Masks and Moai Monolithic heads of Easter Island. They are stylistic rendering of imaginary mystical faces. The basic sketches are done by hand and then the coloration is done digitally. The idea took form while I doodled in the margins of notebooks, later to evolve into individual characters. If you find yourself talking to them, don’t be surprised if they answer back.
Available for purchase at: https://fineartamerica.com/featured/totem-head-red-2-william-calkins.html
Organic Shapes 3 is a mixed media, abstract surrealism drawing. This piece was damaged but was reworked in digital media to bring it back to life. Available for purchase at https://fineartamerica.com/featured/organic-shapes-3-william-calkins.html
My series of mixed media drawings Organic Shapes is influenced by Surrealism and the Chicago Imagists. Colorful, free-form shapes float and intermingle across an imaginary microscope slide, exposing a hidden world. Organic Shapes explore the inter-dimensional realms of creativity.
"Crow" is a mixed media drawing done with marker and color pencil. It illustrates the influence of vision quest animals on art composition.
An addition to my Geo-Abstract series, "Yellow" is completely digitally created. Not as organic as the hand rendered pieces, but speaks to a different interpretation. Modern, stylized, geometric, whimsical
Talisman Head Red 1 was first sketched in ballpoint pen and then colored with digital techniques. Abstract rendering elements are used to convey a mystical appearance.
