The Art of Ira Zoot
Digital Painting • Digital Abstraction • Digital Photography • Digital Product Design
Welcome to iZoot.com
The official website and archive of Ira Zoot — digital paintings, abstract art, and digital photography.
Ira Zoot is a digital artist and photographer based in Mundelein, Illinois. For more than three decades his studio practice has moved between the camera, the tablet, and the screen — treating software as a natural extension of traditional image-making.
Every piece in this archive is digital. Works are conceived, built, edited, and finished on screen using applications such as Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, Corel Painter, and a variety of 3D, generative, and compositing tools. Some begin as photographs; others start as marks, shapes, or textures. All are refined by hand until they become the finished digital paintings, abstract compositions, and photographs you see here.
The site is organized into growing collections — including the layered Impasto and Vortex abstract series, the Stroker paintings, and the Pops digital photography studies. Browse the gallery, read the stories behind individual works, and contact Ira directly for licensing, commissions, or availability.
Ira is also the founder of iDigits.com, and owns the premium domain asset site OurIdeasWork.com.
Collections
Featured Collections
Work is organised into collections that grow as new pieces are finished.
Impasto
Thickly loaded strokes, raised ridges and canvas tooth — the physical language of oil paint, built in the digital studio and pushed past what a real palette knife could hold.
2 works
So Here
A single radial gesture and the variations cut from it: bursts, diagonal cascades and darkened fans where colour survives only in the seams.
3 works
Stroker
A single loaded knife stroke treated as the whole subject — held enormous, repeated into plumage, or set alone against bare canvas.
5 works
Stroker Circo
The loaded stroke bent into a circle, then repeated, enlarged and accumulated — from a single weathered portal to vast fields of concentric painted rings.
3 works
Vortex
One rotating gesture, examined from every side: wound tight into a spiral, unrolled into vertical curtains, drawn out as a single diagonal, or broken into mosaic tiles that still remember the turn.
9 works
Digital Abstraction
Standalone abstract works by Ira Zoot that sit outside the named series — single paintings built from combed fibre, translucent diagonals, speckled impasto petals, mosaic fields and layered colour. Each piece is made entirely in the digital studio and titled on its own terms.
43 works
Digital Cars
Automotive portraits made in the digital studio: the car held sharp and glossy while the street, landscape and light around it are worked into painterly ridges, liquid reflections and abstracted colour.
17 works
Pops
A black-and-white photographic record of the artist's father — hands, rooms, chairs and the light of ordinary days, made close and without arrangement.
9 works
Digital Pets
Animal portraits from the digital studio: parrots, dogs and a veiled chameleon rendered in painterly strokes, posterised colour fields and — where the work began as a camera image — straight digital photography. Every piece is made digitally, from photograph through painting.
7 works
Products
Product studies: iZoot digital artwork adapted to objects — the eyeZoot eyewear frames, Ganjart and iZoot footwear, and the Brain Matters design group. Shown as concepts and examples of how the artwork carries onto manufactured surfaces.
15 works
GanjaArt
GanjaArt: the GanjArt.com line of iZoot digital artwork applied to apparel and eyewear — abstract prints, pictographic logo graphics and surreal panels shown as production mockups and photographed samples. All artwork is created digitally by Ira Zoot.
14 works
Digital Animals
Wildlife and animal studies made digitally by Ira Zoot: gorillas, an eagle, a king cobra, emperor penguins, a peacock in full display and running horses. Each piece is worked from photographic source into painting — impasto ridges, watercolour bloom, contour-line relief and hard-edged vector plumage — with no traditional paint or canvas involved.
8 works
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The artist
A practice built on new tools
Ira Zoot is the founder and fine artist behind iZoot.com. Based in Mundelein, Illinois, he has spent more than thirty-five years working where creativity and technology meet — building businesses and making pictures with whatever tools arrived next.
His practice began in commercial photography and design in Chicago, where he was among the first photographers and designers in the city to adopt Adobe Photoshop. That early access changed how he saw an image: not as a fixed capture, but as raw material that could be layered, corrected, recombined and pushed.
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New work, editions & exhibitions
Occasional notes from the studio when new artwork is added to the archive.