sur·re·al

having the qualities of surrealism; bizarre.

sur·re·al·ism

a 20th-century avant-garde movement in art and literature that sought to release the creative potential of the unconscious mind, for example by the irrational juxtaposition of images.

I started with an image of Buddha that I had worked on a couple of years ago that turned out being pixelated and didn't communicate what I had wanted it to.

I overlaid it with an image I created from the one above:

Then, inverted the overlaid image in Photoshop.

Then played with opacities and cut the image out. I placed it on a black background and pulled from the digital files I had created and used when creating the green Buddha image in another medium, adding a halo, and fractal halo.

After the addition of the bubbles I had used in some of my first generations, it is complete. The final image was not where I was aiming, but I love how it turned out!

WhenI got rolling on Buddha creations for #artexplosion, I found I couldn't stop... Apparently, it got Buddha rolling too!

"On the Road Again" by The Astral Cowboy

How the image was created:

For my entry, I first obtained a 3D image of Sakyamuni Buddha.

Then, added a fractal background created using Geokone.

Then replicated, colorized, and layered the Sakyamuni quadheads and added a smaller version of the same fractal I used for the background as the Anahata (heart chakra).

Then turned them into a ball and added a shadow.

The last step was to add it to a gravel road in Asia.

"On the Road Again" by The Astral Cowboy

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