I spent a little time today playing with some of the brushes and textures that I've been releasing on my site. It's been a while since I've added anything to my gallery and I since I had a little free time I thought I'd put something together and show you guys what's possible using the free resources available on this site. If you would like to try your hand at something similar, download any of my brushes and textures and try for yourself. After you're done, upload your work to the Colorburned User Showcase and show it off!

In this piece, I wanted to see what would happen if I formed some glass-like elements into a spiral. This original document was created as a 24 x 24 inch document but I scaled it down to 18 x 24 for the online version. Needless to say each file save took nearly five minutes.

This is another experimental pattern.  This time I wanted to see how shapes moving in random perpendicular directions would interact with each other.

This was an experimental piece I designed using some new techniques that I developed dealing with basic shapes.

Fashion sketching is an important step in all phases of garment creation.  It serves as a roadmap for fabric and color selection as well as the actual construction of the garment.  For the most part, fashion sketches are done by hand by talented artists and designers but many designers also use Adobe Illustrator to refine their sketches.  This sketch was my second attempt at refining a hand drawn sketch.

This piece was another tribute to mixed media artist James White who uses basic shapes to create magnificent pieces of retro art.  This piece was an attempt to recreate his "Retro Light" style.

I find flower petals to be beautifully symmetrical.  A lot of my designs use this kind of symmetry in them.  In this piece, I used flower petals shapes and textures to create an 18 x 24 inch design.