{"id":3855,"date":"2016-02-25T00:00:26","date_gmt":"2016-02-25T05:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/?p=3855"},"modified":"2016-03-23T10:03:03","modified_gmt":"2016-03-23T14:03:03","slug":"cover-artist-cynthia-decker","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/arts\/cover-artist-cynthia-decker\/","title":{"rendered":"Cover Artist: Cynthia Decker"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul M. Howey<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Haiku_9500-copy_V.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3866\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3866\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Haiku_9500-copy_V-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cover Artist Cynthia Decker\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Haiku_9500-copy_V-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Haiku_9500-copy_V-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>When asked to explain her creative process, Cynthia Decker promised to explain it to me \u201cin a non-irritatingly techy way.\u201d For that, I was grateful.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe oversimplified explanation is to imagine you are making a diorama in a big shoebox,\u201d says Cynthia. \u201cYou have to create each element that makes up the scene in your diorama out of papier\u2013m\u00e2ch\u00e9. So you form the shapes out of wire, and you cover them and paint them to look the way you want, and you assemble your scene, and you get the light just right. And then you get a camera and you take a picture of that diorama.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Release_7500p-copy_V.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3856\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3856\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Release_7500p-copy_V-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cover Artist Cynthia Decker\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Release_7500p-copy_V-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Release_7500p-copy_V-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>She says, in her case, she uses the computer to create the elements of the scene and to make a high-resolution image of the final piece. \u201cWhen I render an image, I am essentially taking 3-D data and instructing the computer to evaluate that data and create a two-dimensional, pixel-based image.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>From there, the explanation of her art veered off into a discussion of modeling, textures, reflection, transparency, bump, light composition, and atmospherics.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOh, got techy there at the end,\u201d she confesses. \u201cCan\u2019t help myself!\u201d Perhaps a trip back to the beginning will show the road that brought her to this fascinating stage of her professional life.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_PrayerFlags_7000-copy_Sq.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3865\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3865\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_PrayerFlags_7000-copy_Sq-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cover Artist Cynthia Decker\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_PrayerFlags_7000-copy_Sq-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_PrayerFlags_7000-copy_Sq-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_PrayerFlags_7000-copy_Sq-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_PrayerFlags_7000-copy_Sq.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Cynthia\u2019s father was an aerospace engineer and her mother a college computer science teacher and author of textbooks about programming languages. As a result, their family home in Cupertino, California, was one of the early ones to have a computer. By the time Cynthia was 13, she was becoming adept at drawing on the family\u2019s Apple IIe. \u201cI wanted to create and sell clip art of pixelated people doing everyday things.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She attended San Francisco State University where she was a business major, but she also took as many design and art classes as her schedule would permit. She eventually left school to take a job working for a window blind company where she created technical drawings of the inner mechanical workings of the blinds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_DrinkingProblem_7500-copy_sq.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3864\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3864\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_DrinkingProblem_7500-copy_sq-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cover Artist Cynthia Decker\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_DrinkingProblem_7500-copy_sq-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_DrinkingProblem_7500-copy_sq-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_DrinkingProblem_7500-copy_sq-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_DrinkingProblem_7500-copy_sq.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>It was no doubt good training for an eventual career in art that she had yet to envision. Later, she went to work in the marketing department of an analog semiconductor company, eventually establishing a successful career as a graphic designer.<\/p>\n<p>It was in the late 1990s that Cynthia first saw some images created using 3-D software and decided to give it a try. \u201cI was fascinated by both the process and the result,\u201d she says. \u201cI loved the software\u2019s handling of light and shadow and texture.<\/p>\n<p>It let me play with some real world parameters like atmospheric effects, reflection, (and) specularity.\u201d She says it changed how she looked at the world.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Lilyofthevalley_7000-copy_H.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3861\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3861\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Lilyofthevalley_7000-copy_H-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cover Artist Cynthia Decker\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Lilyofthevalley_7000-copy_H-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Lilyofthevalley_7000-copy_H-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\u201cI started deconstructing things in my head, breaking them down until I understood how they interacted with the world, and why I saw them the way they appeared.\u201d A pathway to a new world of creativity began to open up for her.<\/p>\n<p>In 2005, six years after moving to Asheville, Cynthia took the plunge and became a full-time artist. Of that decision, she says, \u201cIt was thrilling. It was daunting. I really wanted to make it work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With her husband Randy\u2019s support, she had given herself a five-year timeframe to transition from hobby to art career. \u201cEvery year got a little better, financially and artistically. At the end of the five years, we both knew that I could make a go of it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_AfternoonAlley_6600_sig-copy_V.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3863\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3863\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_AfternoonAlley_6600_sig-copy_V-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cover Artist Cynthia Decker\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_AfternoonAlley_6600_sig-copy_V-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_AfternoonAlley_6600_sig-copy_V-65x65.jpg 65w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>Cynthia says she often visualizes in advance what her finished renderings will look like. \u201cMy images are just about exactly what I see when I begin to work on them. Details and individual colors may change slightly, but the overall composition and message is nearly identical. It\u2019s the beauty of my medium, and why I choose to work with it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She often begins by sketching out her ideas, either on paper or on the computer. But after that, it\u2019s all computer.<\/p>\n<p>When she first began in this medium, she\u2019d simply make some contrast adjustments and call it done. \u201cNow I spend more time, often working over the image by hand with a digitizing tablet and pen to refine details and create a hand-worked final image. These days, I like to introduce some digital brushwork to soften the overall image.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Theintrovert_7000-copy_Sq.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3862\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3862\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Theintrovert_7000-copy_Sq-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cover Artist Cynthia Decker\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Theintrovert_7000-copy_Sq-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Theintrovert_7000-copy_Sq-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Theintrovert_7000-copy_Sq-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_Theintrovert_7000-copy_Sq.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>How long does it take to create one of her renderings from conception to completion? \u201cAnywhere from ten to 200 hours,\u201d she answers, \u201cdepending on the complexity of the scene and how much of it I need to construct.\u201d Generally, quite a bit longer than it takes to make a typical grade school diorama, to be sure.<\/p>\n<p>Looking back on her artistic journey, Cynthia says, \u201cI moved to a place I didn\u2019t know to chase a life I wasn\u2019t sure I could lead.<\/p>\n<p>Through will and effort\u2014and more than a little bit being in the right place at the right time\u2014now I\u2019m thrilled and constantly grateful to wake up and do what I do.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_StoryWorld_7500-copy_Sq.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3860\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3860\" src=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_StoryWorld_7500-copy_Sq-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Cover Artist Cynthia Decker\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_StoryWorld_7500-copy_Sq-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_StoryWorld_7500-copy_Sq-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_StoryWorld_7500-copy_Sq-65x65.jpg 65w, https:\/\/thelaurelofasheville.com\/updatestage\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Cover_Artist-CDecker_StoryWorld_7500-copy_Sq.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 150px) 100vw, 150px\" \/><\/a>\u201cWe\u2019re all more capable than we imagine,\u201d says Cynthia, \u201cand we\u2019re all worth the risk.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><i>You can see Cynthia\u2019s renderings in two Asheville galleries\u2014Woolworth Walk (25 Haywood Street) and K2 Studio (59 College Street)\u2014and on her website (<a href=\"http:\/\/curious3d.com\" target=\"_blank\">curious3d.com<\/a>). 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