About

Bill Branda

“Image Artisan”

Digital Art, Photography and Web Design

I enjoy bringing together many small pieces of my past experiences in:
Painting, Photography, Drawing, Art History, Sculpture, Architecture, Illustration, Graphic Design, Web Development and Technology.

Fun-Da-Mental
rearrangements of pixels is one way of explaining my art. I create images for personal pleasure hoping others will enjoy them as well.
I prefer to call myself an
Image Artisan.
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Today, web space is almost free. Paint, film, harmful chemicals, studio space and agents, are no longer needed to make or display art!

Education
B.F.A., Univ. of Cincinnati, College of Design, Art & Architecture
M.S. in Marketing Communications, Roosevelt Univ., Chicago

Background
For over 20 years I managed marketing communications for divisions of Fortune 500 corporations. Along the way I constantly evolved from paste-up boards to DTP, advertising/PR, emerging tech & web content. For a final decade I marketed global language services to medical, legal & technology firms.
Now retired, I enjoy a passion for making and sharing my art images. Please enjoy the gallery, follow me on social media and share your thoughts.

Software: My primary creative software is Photoshop which I’ve used for over 20 years. It wasn’t until 2017 that I started using a digital graphic tablet and Corel Painter in 2018. Today, many editing capabilities are free on phones and apps. With so many new, low cost tablets and pens available, it has never been easier to get started making art from photos.

Sharing Techniques: In the future I plan to begin posting a Blog on this site for exploring interesting before & after images while sharing some very basic techniques. My idea sharing will be “At-a-Glance” type explanations since there are so many detailed, how-to instructional videos on the web for reference. See Resources page for some I have used.

If you would like to keep in touch for new works and site updates, please click the social site icons for Bill.BrandAGallery on Facebook or Instagram. Follow me there. I will be posting no more than one time per week and I do not sell my list of followers.

Artwork Sales: Currently, I am not selling my work, however I may start if there is enough future demand generated through this virtual gallery. Keep in touch if you may have future interest in purchasing something and please share my gallery site with friends via social media.

Art Sizes/ Formats/ Resolution: Images on this site are low resolution (72dpi) for web content delivery. My original works are usually 200-325dpi, suitable for reproduction on canvas, metal or acrylic media in sizes up to 36 inches. Square formats are most often the crop preference for this site because of auto formatting to desktop, tablet and phone viewing. My originals are usually rectangular and most often in the 16:9 ratio. Custom crops are always available and many square formats you see here, are cropped out of rectangular images.

I hope you will join in, and perhaps share my passion. Creating new images out of old photos is always an interesting way to enjoy virtual travel. I especially love the creative challenge of going way beyond just enhancing a photo technically.

“Fun-Da-Mental” rearranging pixels into paintings is very enjoyable.

All rights are Reserved. Please share ideas and inspiration but do not copy or reuse my images without written permission.