Description

Hmmmm...this is starting to get weird for me. I started with a picture of some sea algae. I cut out the algae in Photoshop and began twisting and bending it. Nothing came to mind. I played around with masking the whole image out and then painting it back in to form different shapes. Still nothing. I decided to change my thinking of what I was looking at by changing it's color. The algae saturation was taken down and the hue was moved until I had what looked like bloody torn flesh. Now I was inspired! I decided I needed another image so I chose a pod-like plant from a photo I'd taken. From one weird idea to the next I wasn't sure where I was going. Words were popping in my head. "Young eating the old." "Eating what's good for us." "Kill them and eat them." "Feeding on the fat." "Bite me, Ok." Eventually I decided to add some contrast by creating the smaller creature. Soon my evil mind was thinking "Goodbye, mommy." And then the association came to me: Christina Crawford and her mother, Joan Crawford.

The background is made from the algae. The plant-like protrusions on each creature were painted in using the source image of sand and rocks. Creatures were enhanced a bit with some painting. The blue rock which kind of looks like corral was created from blowing up the largest set of pebbles in the source. I then painted over the rocks with two different brushes to give it texture.