This is partway through a mische-technique painting, "Tree at the End of the World." For this piece a digital mockup was made first, and then the outlines were transferred onto clay board using charcoal. From there, the piece was finished with india ink, oils, and gold leaf. When this picture was taken, all the base layers and gold leaf had been put down, and Maize was just starting on the undercoat of color. (The painting has been attached to piece of cardboard with 3M strips for easy transport!)

Maize adds gold paint to the underpainting for the transdigital piece "Helen on Knowles St." This piece started with a digital black and white image printed on tracing paper, which was layered in with acrylics on board for an interesting textured effect. Gold paint (with real gold) was applied to this board, and then the whole thing was re-uploaded to the computer, where the characters were added into the scanned background and the rendering completed digitally.

Here Maize works on the transdigital version of "Marooned," which is a combination of digital printing, acrylics, and oils (all properly layered for archival permanence). You can see the tape in place to help protect the mostly-completed figure from an invasion by sea or sky.

Here we prepare to set fire to a layer in a mixed media piece -- this layer is printed on archival paper, then set on fire and then layered under acrylics and other paints. The piece pictured here is still unfinished (an observant viewer might notice that this is physical reworking of the digital image that became the Ethernaut cover).

This is a snapshot of our "Notes from a Time Traveller's Journal" series as they are being prepped for a gallery show. Each image is printed on aged paper, hand colored, and then distressed and set on fire. After the print has been thoroughly damaged, we carefully mount it on archival-quality board and frame it in an 8"x8" shadowbox.

Maize adds color and detail with an artist pen while working on the transdigital version of "Mustang" (which is a combination of digital printing, artist pen, and acrylics). The original Mustang was done entirely digitally in 2005, but it was rehauled from the ground up for its physical incarnation in 2012.

Moco posing as "The Hag" in a MANDEM-designed costume with original props. This character has appeared in some of our works already and she is featured in one of our in-progress art storybooks.

Here our daughter, Kitsu, helps spread clear acrylic gloss medium on the nearly-finished canvas (building up more texture and a more even sheen) before her mom does the final coats in color.

This is from Kitsu's early "performance art" stage, where she would first paint her canvas and then eat all the remaining paints (don't worry, they were perfectly safe!). Currently, she has traded in her edible paints for artist-grade acrylics, but since she's also taken to painting in the nude, we don't have any recent pictures.

This collage piece (shown here in progress) was created for the Collage exhibit at the Musée d'art deJoliette (Summer, 2012). It integrated wood, fabricated flowers, carefully melted toy army men, and clippings from a vintage newspaper discussing atomic warfare. The full title of this piece is "Buffalo Evening News - August 7, 1945."

Here, Maize is adding white highlights to an in-progress painting of Apollo's beloved Daphne, the nymph who was transformed into the laurel tree. This piece, inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses, is a mixed media work incorporating transdigital elements, acrylic and oil paints, and gold leaf.

This is a detailed look at some of the paint textures on "Daphne," while still in progress.

This is a detailed look at one of the early stages of working on "Prometheus," which, like "Daphne," is inspired by Ovid's Metamorphoses. We enjoyed experimenting with impasto methods on this mixed media painting.

Here, Maize is working on the underdrawing for "Portrait of Medusa," the first in a series of paintings about the infamous Gorgon from Greek Mythology.

Here, Maize is working on the underdrawing for "Portrait of Medusa," the first in a series of paintings about the infamous Gorgon from Greek Mythology.

These hand-crafted "pills," made of resin, bones, teeth, and hair, were created as a prop for "Pathology," an interactive art performance that premiered at The Fountain Art Fair in Miami, FL (during Art Basel, 2012).

Here, Maize works on an oil painting (the working title had been "The Hollow Girl," but it is now known as "Just Skin") on clay board.

This transdigital painting transitioned between digital and physical forms a total of five times to get to the stage you see here, where Maize is working in oil paint on canvas.

This is a peek inside one of our studio spaces in March, 2013, where a number of painting, photography, and sculpture projects were in progress.

This is a peek inside one of our studio spaces in March, 2013, where a number of painting, photography, and sculpture projects were in progress.