Speaking of digital
painting (Hi Hockney! I don't have an
iPad but my Wacom graphic tablet has been in constant
use since 2004) I love it, it's fun, absorbing, exciting
and stimulating to my eye and hand and brain but something
entirely different takes place during a direct interaction
of the hand and the whole mind-body with a live,
un-mediated surface in a live un-mediated environment.
I can't define what that difference is and I can't be
entirely certain that it's better than its digitally
orchestrated version, but somebody sometime somewhere
will surely write a thesis on this subject.
Showing posts with label digital painting. Show all posts
Showing posts with label digital painting. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 01, 2012
DIGI-ME ON QARRTSILUNI
Part of my 2006 series of digitally
painted self-portraits "in-the-manner-of"
are included in the latest issue
of qarrtsiluni whose current theme is Imitation.
I'm so happy to appear again in this
consistently, persistently, stubbornly excellent online
magazine.
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Tuesday, September 06, 2011
BORN FROM SCARVES
This African spirit emerged from digitally painting over one of my scarves photos. There may be more.
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Monday, September 20, 2010
FATHER AND CHILD PICTURE
My youngest niece and
her husband (I posted pictures of their wedding
some time ago) had their second baby on September
14th. I haven't seen the infant boy in the
flesh yet but of the photos they sent,
one in particular just cried out to be painted.
So here's my version, digitally drawn on
graphic tablet, from the photo below.
By the way, in case you're wondering, I don't use photos as digital layers to trace and paint over or to make more 'painterly' by using filters. In this and other digital portraits I start with a blank page and look at the original photo as if it were a live model, drawing and painting directly from it onto my graphic tablet, using Photoshop brushes. I consider it cheating to manipulate a photo itself with digital processes in order to produce something that may look like a painting but is actually an altered photograph.
Mother-and-child paintings are legion but, at least to my knowledge, there aren't that many of father and child. This one has got to be a contender, don't you think?
September almost gone already! Sorry for the long gaps between posts - have been busy offline. I will (really really) be posting more Vie en Rosé soon.
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By the way, in case you're wondering, I don't use photos as digital layers to trace and paint over or to make more 'painterly' by using filters. In this and other digital portraits I start with a blank page and look at the original photo as if it were a live model, drawing and painting directly from it onto my graphic tablet, using Photoshop brushes. I consider it cheating to manipulate a photo itself with digital processes in order to produce something that may look like a painting but is actually an altered photograph.
Mother-and-child paintings are legion but, at least to my knowledge, there aren't that many of father and child. This one has got to be a contender, don't you think?
September almost gone already! Sorry for the long gaps between posts - have been busy offline. I will (really really) be posting more Vie en Rosé soon.
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