A Time of Violence

We seem to over romanticize knights and the middle ages.  Remember it was a time of horrible violence—much like today without toilet paper. 

Not A Toy Soldier

This image is not a toy soldier, but in terms of digital modification, the same type of process applies to the image.  It is from a cemetery monument.  Have you ever noticed that so many of our cemeteries in the north and mid-west contain monuments to our Civil War dead?  This monument stands in Oakwood Cemetery, Lisbon, ND.

Monument Oakwood Cemetery Lisbon, ND

Taps  G R Streff 2012

No War should be Glorified

Diptych

Battle Field

Knights & Dragons

This series is combinations of miniature photography and computer-graphic painting.  I am self-taught in computer graphics, But feel I am a good student with a struggling teacher.

There are eight Schleich Knights in my collection.  I love the detail in these toys.  Of course, I do a lot of "painting" to get my images.  Here are some of my images, some original photos, and what I have "painted."
 

  I feel that I have taken the plastic toys and given them life, turning the plastic to metal, cloth and flesh; adding shadows, dulling colors, I create my own world of combat, much as I did in my imagination as a child. 

Digital Painting of toy knight

The Quest

The Castle is Aflame

The Castle is Aflame (vert)

The Castle is Aflame

Castle Battle

Photo of framed The Castle is Aflame

The Last Crusader

Detail of Digital reworking of toy knight

The Last Crusader version one

The Last Crusader version three

The Dragon Slayer

 

 

 

 

The Knights Battle

Original Photo of toy knight

Melee