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My digital art is of four types:

First, I have created an app raveZap that generates interactive, abstract animations in a huge variety of styles. The app itself is available from Apple here. I have now moved much of raveZap to the web. It is possible for you to go to the raveZap website, generate some cool art and then send it on to Fine Art America to be printed as wall art, cushions and other stuff. Check it out at ravezap.com

Second, I perform digital manipulation of photographs:

Third, I explore stylized depictions of creatures on the border of 2D and 3D. I have created a style called "stylish", a new type of flexible stylized art. ("[s]tylized art reduces visual perception to constructs of pattern in line, surface elaboration and flattened space" - Clark, Willene B., A Medieval Book of Beasts")

Stylized art tends to:

1. 2-dimensional
2. single colour areas
3. repetition

Existing examples:

• 2D, non-repetitive: posters; cartoons; stained glass; woodlands and plains schools; graffiti art
• pattern repetition: Yayoi Kusama dots; Aboriginal dot art; West Coat Aboriginal art ("D", "U/V", "S" shapes); Polynesian, Maori and Celtic tattoos

This is a crowded space. 2D flattened images are done in every possible variation. Repetition of dots, lines, triangles, rectangles and paisley-like shapes is very common. However, in 2 1/2 dimensions there is some "space" (2 1/2 D is where 2D shapes overlap). Celtic knots use 2 1/2 D and some Cubism could be considered 2 1/2 D. For my style of this art form the rules are:

1. Repetition of only "S" shapes.
2. Overlap the shapes with some translucency.

Fourth, I create weird slogans for apparel:

Some selections of all of the above are available at: Fine Art America, Redbubble and TeePublic. If there is anything that would be more convenient for you on a different site, please email me.

© 2020 Christopher Sturgess, contact: mailto:princefurfish@hotmail.com