exercising the movable medium
On Site 1 – digital art – laptop finger painting – Dan Beck 2007
This is a sketch – on site – still working out the bugs for plein air – where to sit – place the computer – have enough shade? etc.
In some ways embarrassingly, this was done from the passenger’s seat of my car – it was dark enough to see the screen and the wheel wasn’t in the way – so sketching what I saw in 30 to 40 minutes prior to an appointment.
Like a lot of my recent work, this was an exercise – not a bad thing – just trying to get a feel for painting with a laptop and using my fingers instead of a mouse. I subsequently took this piece and worked on it in my normal fashion – sketched turned to fully textured and more developed digital painting- but what a challenge to actually make the digital art better.
This captured what I saw – in a way that couldn’t be done at a later time. I am trying to understand the differences and possibilities here.
See Also
- Three-Finger Exercise – TIME – a review of a 1998 play called “Art” – the language of the reviewer and the content of the play are remarkably in tune with my own
- Another Sunset Sketch – though not done on site – the same kind of quick rendition of a scene – done within moments of viewing
- The subjective truth – article title (My Camera World: What I Saw, My Camera Captured and What My Mind Thought it Saw) – but all art including photography requires interpretation
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