Mary Ogle: Digital Painter - Artist - Illustrator - Designer - Working in the Digital Medium

Blackberry is sponsoring an interesting collaborative project called "Keep Moving". Neil Gaiman is participating - writing a series of short stories based on the months of the calendar and suggestions that were tweeted to him. People were then asked to submit artwork and videos to illustrate the stories. I love collaborating - the push and pull of different brains filtering a common goal through their own experiences is intoxicating.

August by Mary Ogle - Digital Painting - March 2013

Blackberry's "Keep Moving" Project: Neil Gaiman - Calendar Tales Collaboration: What would August say?

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January by Mary Ogle - Digital Painting - February 2013

Blackberry's "Keep Moving" Project: Neil Gaiman - Calendar Tales Collaboration: What's it like to be a year? Does it mean fighting every nano-second of every day to keep the monsters out of everyone else's head?

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March by Mary Ogle - Digital Painting - February 2013

Blackberry's "Keep Moving" Project: Neil Gaiman - Calendar Tales Collaboration: I come from a gritty little beach town squatting in the Florida panhandle. Every year we celebrated the memory of the local pirate - Billy Bow Legs. I probably still have plastic beads secreted away in dark corners.

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December by Mary Ogle - Digital Painting - February 2013

Blackberry's "Keep Moving" Project: Neil Gaiman - Calendar Tales Collaboration: I've been haunted a bit by the past lately. Not in a bad way - just a brush to the lips - a reminder of how far I've come and how far I still have to go.

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FEAB by Mary Ogle - Digital Painting

Four Eyes and Beard (FEAB) is a new podcast on the Nerdist network featuring Matt Mira and Scott Mosler that everyone should immediately listen to because it's awesome. If you like very dry humor you will love this. Find it here.

Nerdist Road Trip by Mary Ogle - Digital Painting

I have no idea if they are going to use it or not but I had so much fun making my first illustration for Nerdist that I had to make another one. I love road trips. We used to drive from Florida to Kansas every summer and I loved it - hours of daydreaming in the back seat with the occasional stop at Stuckey's or Howard Johnson's. I suddenly feel very old.

Summertime by Mary Ogle - Digital Painting - June 2012

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I'm not sure how to verbalize my feelings about this one. Time has weighed heavily on me the past few years I guess. There's been a lot of loss. I originally titled this "Ojai Garden". She was just a figure lounging in a field of poppies. But she was having none of that. She was willing to be organic but wanted me to know she was also a part of a larger machine. I'm not sure if the gear on her wrist is a good thing or a bad one. Maybe neutral. I just don't know.

Giving Back to Nerdist by Mary Ogle featured on the Nerdist Podcast show page

How cool is this - my steampunkian/cyborgian illustration of Chris Hardwick, Matt Mira and Jonah Ray is featured on the Nerdist Podcast: Who Said That show page. My birthday is tomorrow and this is the best gift I could have ever hoped to receive. Thanks guys!

Charleston Mermaid by Mary Ogle - Digital Painting - February 2012

I visited Charleston on a business trip a few years ago and two things about it struck me the most - water and graveyards. I spent a long time wandering through an old graveyard reading the inscriptions on the stones and making up stories about the lives of the people who had died so long ago. It was sad but also calming and even serene.

What I remember about Charleston:

1. I am from the south originally and I never felt more southern that when I was there.
   
2. I am convinced ghosts walk the streets. I did not see them but you could feel them everywhere.
   
3. It was easy to slip back in time and feel as if you walked with shadows of the past.
   
4. It was a sad city though it still maintained a certain aging grandeur. The misery that had been visited on so many people there had soaked into the streets and not yet been released.
   
5. It was beautiful and complicated.
   

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Baby Horse of the Apocalypse by Mary Ogle - Digital Painting - February 2012

OK it's a silly title. But I make up stories in my head when I paint and this one turned into the life of the four horses of the apocalypse before they gave up hope. Maybe this time it will have a better ending.

Why paint digitally:

1. Well frankly it's easier. I'm blind in one eye and I have trouble seeing detail. Computers are great because you can zoom in.
   
2. I'm a computer geek anyway. Might as well combine the two halves of the poor, old, confused brain.
   
3. No matter how long you've used photoshop (think I started on 2.0 - maybe 1.0 not sure anymore) you never seem to discover its limits. It's like the mafia - you can't leave.
   
4. I REALLY like undo.
   
5. My place is 500 square feet. Where do you store artwork? Though to be honest it's all over the place anyway - under the bed, on top of the fridge, behind the couch ...
   

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