The artists and photographers have done it again! They have embraced our latest show, “True Colors,” and have submitted works that masterfully weave colors of every hue and brightness through their fascinating visual concepts. These artists hail from 23 countries, including 18 states in the USA, and have once again made our show an international event.
Judging this show was a challenge, not only because it drew many more entries than our previous show, but also because so many great images arrived. Of course, that is a good challenge to have. After much consideration and discussion, our three judges (myself included) chose 310 images, awarding a Gold Stellar Art Award to three and a Stellar Art Award to thirty.
It should be noted that this was a very competitive show, and thus, having even one image chosen is a high honor. As much as we would have liked to have included every submitting artist, we did not, but what we can say is that every last image we evaluated showed promise. We hope that those artists whose work was not selected will continue working to further that promise.
Before listing the top award-winning images, I would like to thank my fellow judges, Glen Christensen and Gary Viskupic. These two graphics professionals have long resumes of accomplishment in the visual arts. As Art Director of Buddah Records, Elektra/Asylum Records, and 20th Century Fox Records, Glen was, for years, a major figure in graphic design in the music industry, where he garnered two nominations for the prestigious Grammy Award, for Best Album Package. Gary has to his credit an extensive body of work in editorial illustration, most of which he rendered while an editorial artist at New York’s Newsday. In addition, his international freelance work has included many award-winning posters and illustrations for magazine and book publishers. Gary has been recognized many times by such prestigious organizations as the Society of Illustrators, Graphis, The Society for News Design, and Print magazine. He is currently an instructor of illustration at New York Institute of Technology.
Now, it is with pleasure that Digital Arts: California announces the following award-winning works:
GOLD STELLAR ART AWARDS
“Vector Fox”
BERND WACHTMEISTER
Leverkusen, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany
Vector Art
“In Humid Calm”
MICHAEL FRANK
Clovis, California, USA
3D Still Digital Art
“Hella”
ØRDEAL
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Photo Manipulation
STELLAR ART AWARDS
“Tulip Wing”
RICK CHAPMAN
Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
Fractal Art
“Rembrandt”
GEDIMINAS PRANCKEVICIUS
Vilnius, Lithuania
Digital Painting
“Monolithic Dreams”
THOMAS TIBITANZL
Munich, Germany
Mixed Media – Digital Painting, 3D, Photomanipulation
“Star Wars”
ACHARD
Saint-Tropez, France
Digital Painting
“Constraints”
REYNANTE M. MARTINEZ
San Juan, La Union, Philippines
3D Still Digital Art
“The Lost Dream”
NYKOLAI ALEKSANDER
United Kingdom
Digital Art
“Fashion Explosion”
STEFAN CHINOF
Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Digital Artwork
“82”
FARZAD GOLPAYEGANI
Istanbul, Turkey
Digital Painting
“Drug Free Zone”
DAVID FUHRER
Bern, Switzerland
Digital Painting
“La Belle et la Bête” (“The Beauty and the Beast”)
PETER Mc LANE
Vence, France
Digital Painting
“Garamond Cube 31”
LEONARD CLAGETT
Naples, Florida, USA
3D Still Digital Art
“Secret Talks of Flowers”
BENICCO
Kashiwa, Chiba, Japan
Digital Painting
“Color Sphere 1”
IVAN DOMEYKO
Santiago, Chile
Integrated Digital Art
“Tomorrow Never Happened”
VALP MACIEJ HAJNRICH
Katowice, Polanda
Digital Art, Photo Manipulation, Matte Painting
“Amnesty”
ASILE
AGENCY: OGILVY – ATHENS
(Additional credits with image)
Paris, France
Full 3D Computer-Generated Imagery
“Fallacies of Ambiguity”
RAY HOOFMAN
Dallas, Texas, USA
Digital Photography
“Man + Woman”
LEE ZASLOFF
Encinitas, California, USA
Digital Art
“The Brush Stroke”
CARLO INCANDELA
London, United Kingdom
Digital Painting
“Max Skræk on Bike”
RASMUS JENSEN
Århus, Denmark
Digital Painting
“Cherries Jubilee”
LAUREN ZORN
Medina, Ohio, USA
Computer-Generated Art, Fractal Art
“Just in Time”
GUY ATHERFOLD
Carshalton Beeches, United Kingdom
Digital Illustration
“Videolution”
JONATHAN VIZCUÑA
Miami, Florida, USA
Computer Art
“Mind Games”
LINDA RISELEY
Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Digital Photopainting
“d9-4D-Dos”
JUAN ESCUDERO
Spain
Algorithmic Art
“Avatar – Lion”
ALLFICTION
Japan
Digital Art
“goyoku-sanzaru” (“Three Greedy Monkeys”)
SENJIRO NAKATA
Japan
Digital Painting
“Sliced Sour Cherry”
IGOR SCEKIC
London, United Kingdom
Mixed Media (Photomanipulation, 3-Dimensional, Digital Painting, Vector)
“Transparent Light”
WIL DAWSON
Clearwater, Florida, USA
Digital Drawing – Vector Art
“Torn from You”
MONIKA WRIGHT
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Photo-Based Digital Manipulation – Transformations
“Poppy Summer”
LOKO SUEDERDIEK
Bodenfelde, Niedersachsen, Germany
Digital Photopainting
On to the show! (return to exhibit)
Virginia Christensen
Director, Digital Arts: California
