Andrew Cole

This week I chose to want to highlight the work of digital artist, Andrew Cole.  I find it interesting how he incorporates his love of chess into his work and the contrast this creates.  Cole explains his technique and style as that of a game of chess, where each piece he creates has the same overall "rules" but he creates a different "strategy" for each one which takes them in many different directions, although they all start in the same place.  A chess board is obviously flat and made up of many adjacent squares and Cole likes to contrast this using swirls and dimensional objects.  I love the mix of square shapes and round shapes that he uses and also round shapes positioned in squared off layouts.  The colors and gradients in this piece are wonderfully bright and eye-catching.  This is pretty irrelevant but this piece also reminds me of packman which was one of my favorite games to play growing up.