Linda McCarthy: Classics Turned Unique!

We are so proud to present one of Renderosity 's best fractalists and scapers:



Linda is a fractalist who turns a classic fractal into a masterpiece with her magic touches of texture and warm colour balance. Classic fractals are no longer common fractals when rendered by Linda. Read on for her Art AutoBio, and don´t forget to visit the rest of her magical gallery at Renderosity

I'm 57 and have lived in southern California for several years.  I am married to John, have 2 children, 4 grandchildren and our beloved dog, Bubba.  I hold some strong religious and spiritual beliefs which steady me and provide me an eternal perspective.

I have a great appreciation for beauty, no matter the venue or media.  I take great pleasure in viewing and receiving inspiration from the works of many artists and many styles of art.  I love music and literature..almost as much as digital art.

I came across my first fractal in 96 or 97, I think..when a friend sent me one he had produced.  I was blown away by it's uniqueness and beauty.   I finally downloaded a shareware program, Flarium..then tried KPT Explorer and filters.  In 2000, I became a beta tester for Xenodream..and later, that same year, I discovered Ultra Fractal..and was a goner, for sure.  

Fashioning fractals into art remains an enduring passion, and I create the images in primarily two programs, Ultra Fractal and Xenodream.  I've recently re-discovered Terragen and enjoy creating landscapes, though it remains a huge challenge for me.  I gush too much, am easily impressed and love babies.  

My art training is nil.  I have a difficult time drawing a decent stick figure.  I'm math phobic, but love to manipulate formulae to achieve the desired result.  I've always been fascinated with form and flow and color.  I love the paintings hanging on the wall of one of our local nursing homes and would be in heaven if those paintings were eventually willed to me.




A Celebration of The Journey

Abstract Mosaic for Carol

For something different

Candidate for an Angioplasty

Confined Slinky

Fantastic Voyage

Finding my Niche

Fractal Frolicking

Free to be

Freedom to Be

From A Distance

Iron and Slate

Julicious

Kaleido Commotion

Late Aftermoon

Mediterranean

Natural Phenomena

Neptune's Lair

On the Celing

Poached, Please

Rust and Bark and Butterscotch

Saigo II

Sailor, take warning...

Salty Air

Sans Sea and Sky

Sculpted and Painted Glyph

Sketch Metal

Sunset Tiers

The Acrobat

The Royal Battle

Where is thy victory O Grave





I want to make clear the point about contributing your art to this gallery.

Even though, as we say below, we´re open for everyone, and though we are not an elitist group or community, we are a gallery devoted to DIGITAL ART WORTHY TO BE PRINTED AND EXPOSED AS A TRUE PAINTING.

So, bearing this in mind, please do not submit any art that does not fulfill this requirement. We won´t write any rejection notes, they are unfair and discouraging. We won´t qualify your art, but if it doesn´t comply with our only requirement, it won´t be shown over here! So, if after a reasonable period of time you don´t see your art in this gallery, you may want to re-consider your concept. It might be digital alright, but it may not necessarily be a painting!




Digital art these days consists mainly of skinning, illustrations and 3D renderings. Even though many of them are high quality pieces of considerable artistic value, we do not think they are conceived to be printed and exposed as paintings.

Digital galleries throughout the net are showing true digital paintings, but they restrict their acceptance to the owner´s preferences or ideas about what should be called art .

We want to offer a showroom for the artist who respects his/her own art. If you regard your art as worthy of being printed and exposed in a gallery, museum or at any art lover´s wall, the doors are open here for you!

We do not restrict acceptance of art pieces to our concepts about art. Any kind of art expression is valid for us, as long as it has been made to be printed and exposed as a true painting.





If you want your art to be exposed in this gallery, please send us a mail with a low resolution jpg copy of your digital painting.

Preferable sizes should be smaller than 1200 pixels wide and/or length.

Please include the following information:







Even though we restrict our entries to art pieces that were conceived to be printed and exposed as paintings, and though we are open for every artist whose pieces meet this only requirement.

We are not another elitist club or an open for everyone community . Both types exist already at DA and some of them are highly respected and succesful please, do not apply to us for membership!.

We are not seeking to profit :money: on YOUR ART! It is YOU who has the right to do it!

We won´t call for contests, tweakings, tournaments or any other competition.

We will not watch any artist or have any favourites!.

We will not comment on any artist´s art!


Nevertheless, we may invite worthy artists to show their work over here.