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ABOUT
Michael Zimring is an attorney who has decades of experience in legal matters connected to commercial finance and property rights. For the last few decades, he also has become a digital artist, creating several hundred digital art paintings. Although he never marketed his digital art, he has had picture books of his digital art accepted in prestigious art libraries of Seattle Art Museum, Art Institute of Chicago, and Chicago Botanic Garden, respectively.
I was always interested in photography, and when Photoshop was introduced, I immediately started experimenting with using certain photos as the basis for creating digital art. What happened surprised me because that creative process brought out an urge to link some of the images with a poetic expression. So, in 2012, I authored an e-book entitled We Fly with Our Kites which is carried on Apple Books. That e-book contains fifteen of my poems and associated digital art. Below is a gallery of three images (original photo, poem, abstract digital art) showing how the process enfolded in connection with one of those poems (slightly revised by me after the book was published).
The poem, Reaching Up, and the digital abstract art, also named Reaching Up, are based on the above displayed photo that I took in 2004. The trees, the children walking a narrow ledge, and the skyscrapers immediately inspired the creative process that gave rise to the poem. And then I was also inspired to create an abstract art painting based on the photograph and the poem.
Subsequently, my digital art followed themes related to my travels, interests, and experiments with new digital art tools, including video and animation. However, in 2023, when digital art NFTs became the “thing”, I became wary and wrote an e-book entitled NFTs A Lawyer’s/Digital Artist’s Dilemma, also carried on Apple Books.
The bottom line is that I believe that digital art tools offer unparalleled versatility, allowing artists to create works in a manner and style that best suits their vision for each individual piece. Unlike traditional canvas painters who must master specific brush strokes and techniques that are not easily altered, digital artists can effortlessly switch between styles. This adaptability enables digital artists to experiment and evolve their techniques to match the desired outcome of their artwork, ensuring that their vision is accurately represented.