digital digits

On Halloween, I thought for a costume, I would shave and pull my hair back - was planning on putting on a suit too - not my normal look - if there is such a thing. In any event, it is getting to be time to put the beard back - not into the daily shaving routine and my partner likes the less scratchy beard.

So the above is a laptop snapshot - I used it for a model for the finger-painted digital art below

This digital painting - not the way I normally work, was painted using a photo model. Digital art like digital painting could mean a lot of different things. My work starts from a blank page but the field is wide open - it is new and wide reaching in possibilities.

I know many people who might have taken the photo and altered and painted on it in photoshop and quite likely come up with something quite cool. I am in favor of all creativity - but I simply used the image as a model to challenge my abilities to render an image using my fingers as a mouse to paint with - a new challenge for me - and I think a pretty good likeness. But of course I’ve seen myself.

See Also

• Figures Art Gallery - last years innovative gallery - figures
• Digital Finger Painting - article I was emailed today - not at all what I mean by the term - but these are new terms, new technology, and everyone has to coin his own terms at this point