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Now showing: One Q XXXII, 2025
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.
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Find your way into the work
Every piece in the archive is indexed by palette, mood and energy, so you can explore by what you respond to rather than by title.
Explore by Mood
Follow feeling instead of category: dreamlike, energetic, peaceful, mysterious, playful, intense, surreal or contemplative.
Explore by Energy
Choose the pace of the picture — calm, flowing, kinetic, bold, meditative, chaotic or luminous.
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Send me somewhere unexpected in the archive — one piece, chosen at random from the published work.
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Featured work, full scale
One piece at a time, held large. Step through the selection, then open the artwork page for the full story.
Digital Animals
Eagle VIII
Digital Painting • 2025 • 1080 × 1080 px
An eagle drawn head-on with wings fully spread, every feather cut as a hard-edged vector blade in red, yellow, cobalt, teal and magenta and outlined in black. The bird is perfectly symmetrical, and behind it the ground explodes into radial motion blur — chartreuse, rose and violet streaming out from the crown like light behind a stained-glass panel.
Heraldry by way of stained glass: a bird built from blades of colour.
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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
Selected works
Featured Artwork
Newly added
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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.
Read the full statementArt in objects
See This Art in the Real World
Original iZoot artwork can move beyond the screen into objects, fashion, interiors and collectible pieces. Fine-art prints and products are in preparation; every item is produced from the original high-resolution artwork.
Wear It
Apparel, footwear and eyewear carrying iZoot artwork — the GanjArt line and the eyeZoot frames.
See the wearable work
Live With It
Wall art and interior pieces. Large abstractions from the Vortex, Impasto and Stroker series suit big walls and hospitality spaces.
See work for walls
Collect It
Fine-art prints and limited editions produced from the original high-resolution files.
Collector information
Gift It
Product studies and accessories — objects that carry a whole painting at small scale.
See the product studies
Inside the studio
How the work gets made
Software as an extension of traditional image-making — the same decisions about mark, surface and colour, made on screen.
01
Start with a mark or a capture
A piece begins either behind the camera or with the first stroke — a shape, a texture, a colour that suggests where the image wants to go.
02
Build the surface
Layers accumulate. Brushwork, vector structure and 3D-derived texture are stacked, warped and blended until the surface has real depth.
03
Push the colour
Colour is tuned last and hardest — saturation, temperature and the small neutral passages that let the loud colour read as intentional.
04
Finish at full resolution
Every finished piece is kept at its original high resolution. Site images are previews; prints and products are produced from the master file.
The evolution of iZoot
Three decades of new tools
From the camera to early Photoshop, product design, surface work and today's digital painting — each medium re-opened the last.
01 — Beginnings
Photography
A start behind the camera: learning light, composition and the patience of getting one frame right.
02 — Chicago
Commercial Work
Photography and design produced professionally in Chicago, working to brief, deadline and print.
03 — Early digital era
Photoshop, Early
Among the first photographers and designers in Chicago to work in Adobe Photoshop — treating the photograph as editable material.
04 — Design studio years
Product & Toy Design
Designing physical products, including work as a senior toy designer — form, function and manufacture.
05 — Ongoing
Surface Design
Pattern and repeat work intended for textiles, wallpaper, packaging and product surfaces.
06 — Ongoing
Digital Illustration
Drawn and constructed digital images, developed alongside the photographic work.
07 — Recent
AI Collaboration
Combining generative AI with traditional digital artwork — the model proposes, the artist edits, composites and finishes.
08 — Present
The Archive
Building iZoot.com as the central, growing archive of the work: collections, stories and available pieces in one place.
Timeline entries reflect verified career information only. Future chapters — interactive and immersive work — will be added as they are completed.
Around the work
Follow the practice
New pieces are added to the archive as they are finished. Here is where the studio, the ventures and the conversation live.
Talk to the artist directly
Every enquiry — collecting, licensing, commissions, press — reaches Ira Zoot himself. There is no gallery layer in between.
Send a messageWatch the archive grow
Latest additions appear on the home page and in each collection. The immersive gallery is the fastest way to see everything at scale.
Enter the immersive galleryBeyond the studio
- iDigits.com
Ira Zoot's founding venture — digital design and brand work that sits alongside the studio practice.
- OurIdeasWork.com
The premium domain asset portfolio behind the iZoot network of project sites.
Ira Zoot works from Mundelein, Illinois. Everything published on iZoot.com is his own original digital work — nothing in this archive is stock, resold or reproduced from another artist.
Working with Ira Zoot
Art Beyond the Gallery
Four clear routes into working with the archive. Enquiries go directly to the studio — no agency in between.
Collectors
Available works, editions and fine-art prints produced from the original high-resolution files. Enquire about a specific piece, a pairing, or a series for a wall.
Licensing
iZoot artwork can be licensed for products, interiors, hospitality, apparel, publishing, packaging, advertising and digital environments. Terms are agreed per project and per territory.
Creative Collaboration
Open to working with brands, agencies, designers, architects, musicians, filmmakers, developers and experiential creators where the artwork can lead the visual direction.
Commissioned & Commercial Artwork
Commissioned digital painting, abstraction, surface design and photographic work for private and commercial clients, including corporate and hospitality environments.
In development
A collector circle with early access to new releases, studio notes and behind-the-artwork material is being prepared. Join the journey below and you'll hear about it first.
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Occasional notes from the studio about new artwork, new collections, limited releases, products, immersive experiences, exhibitions, collaborations and studio projects. Sent only when there is something worth showing.
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New work, editions & exhibitions
Occasional notes from the studio when new artwork is added to the archive.