Here is my e-mail link:bparkman@bitsong.com Thanks.

And here's a bit of thinking:

The "Sunroom" is a painting made of light. A painting is something that takes into account subject, composition, light source, perspective, the picture plane, spatial relationships, texture and many other factors. It provides an experience of seeing for the viewer, and ideally, an experience of feeling or of perceiving the artist's thoughts. Painting has been done in many media over the ages: fresco, oils, water color acrylics. Each of these carries its own inherent potential for great beauty and its own limitations.

Areas of color made up of dots of colored light within a glass screen also carry a potential for beauty, and of course, limitations. Because the light is shining through from behind, there is an effect like stained glass, called additive color synthesis. Until the computer age, it was possible but not easy to create art with colored light. The masters of stained glass technique in the Middle Ages had to choose, cut, stain and mount their colored glass into a stone building designed to last for centuries. There was no Undo button.

In painting with light on a computer screen, all the elements of traditional painting are possible, even texture -- though not the texture of brush strokes, of course, for the screen is flat and smooth. But there is texture of a sort in the juxtaposition and gradations of color. To see an example, go to "Sunroom" and choose the pink rose just behind the left French door. Click on it and blow it up until the flower fills about 1/4 of the screen. You'll see that each petal has a stripe down the middle. These stripes are one solid color from end to end, but to the eye, they change color dramatically as they pass through the pink gradient applied to the petal. Another example is what I call the edge glow effect. To see this, go to "ColorCubePal" and look along the edge of any row of cubes where it joins the next row. You will see a kind of glow on the inside edge of each color where they meet. Now take two of the viewing shields and block off a row from it's neighbors. The glow disappears.

Then there is animation. Thanks to Flash, an artist can paint with moving light. This was a bit beyond the old stained glass masters, but it has been explored in modern film animation. Flash makes this too, a whole lot easier. View "Fluff" to see a Flash animation that is made entirely with ActionScript code with only one petal of one flower existing as painted artwork. Or visit the Flash Math Creativity site and see the work of many Flash artists.

Then there is interaction. You have seen a simple example of this if you made your own vase of flowers in the Sunroom. Again, thank you Flash for making interaction possible. In the future, I plan to combine light painting, animation and interaction to make a finished piece of art that tells a story.