Monthly Archives: October 2009

Keith Mackay’s Revisionist History

“It was already dead, so I didn’t see any point in keeping it around.”
One of the few extant group blogs on fractal art got its plug pulled recently. This was no surprise since the wedream(ed)incolor blog, run by Keith Mackay, had been on life support for some time. In fact, Tim wrote

Sailing into the Horror

The Garbage Path by Guido Cavalcante
[Click on the image above to see a large-scale version.]
Editor’s Note: This is a guest posting by Guido Cavalcante. His image was made using Ultra Fractal. Excerpts in this post were taken from “Our Oceans Are Turning into Plastic…Are We?” by Susan Casey. For

Force 10 from Navarone!

In keeping with the Phase 2 idea that the essence of fractal art is found in the imagery and not in the tools that made it, I present a mixed bag of things I found while taking the paths less traveled, or never traveled, to find fractal art.  I followed a number of categories during

Dan Wills: Fractal Columbus

halleyDetailTwoPointNine… by Dan Wills, 2008-Click for larger view-
Like a needle in a haystack, or a glowing needle in a fractal formula, is the rumor of a continent over the horizon or the possibility of some new and intriguing fractal artwork out there, somewhere, on the internet.  My impression after browsing over Dan Wills’ Picasa web

Meanwhile, back at the Academy…

lesson_2_atmosphere_isolation_for_janet Click to Enlarge
I found this in the Student Galleries section of the Visual Arts Academy.  There’s no name or date but it’s filed in the Ultra Fractal Artistry section of the gallery, a course given by Janet Parke.I like this.  In fact, I fished it out of all the student works there as the

Sheets in the Wind and Rings of Gold: The Ultra Fractal Style

Whether you’re a fractal artist or simply just a fan of fractal art, you’re bound to eventually notice similarities in style and develop preferences for this kind of art or that kind of art. Fractal art is still what I would consider to be something of a niche art form, but thanks to the