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Viewing Out - digital painting / art prints - Dan Beck 2004

I remember this evening - I went out to see a small art show in a bakery in Sand City - there was said to be some "computer generated art" - it really was more akin to digital painting - one of a kind - artist does one print and saves nothing.

I don’t think that utilizes the digital potential very well, but that is neither here nor there. The work was fun - and the evening took me to a party which was also fun.

And the sky is the sky of that evening - and the view is from a hillside of a back route into the area where one can see this section into the Monterey Bay.

The representation isn’t that close to reality, but it is also a lot closer than one would think.

See Also

• Viewing Out
  availability of art prints from digital painting Viewing Out
• Dining & Restaurants | Central Coast Pie
  small review of some of Sweet Elena’s goodies -3/4 way down - Bakery shows art work local to it
• Computer-generated art - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
  A good place to get some of the digital art distinctions

April Fool’s Email - Original Print?

I received this email today and April Fool’s - the return address did not work - and since the response was pertinent and I couldn’t actually give it after I had written it, I thought I would go ahead and print both.

Sent: Saturday, April 01, 2006 12:59 PM
To: info@outhousestudios.net
Subject: Digital Art

Hello Dan

I was most interested in your site and what you have to say about your work and to pass on this brief note to say how much I enjoyed it.

I am often asked by the general public what is an original print? I am sure you get asked a similar question about your original computer generated printed work. I find such questions difficult to reply to even if the work is hand drawn.

I wonder if when you print one of your pieces if you destroy the file so that image is also offered as unique or is each painting printed as an edition of say 50 or so?

With regards

Roger

See Also

• Digital Art Discussion at Outhouse Studios
  Not so much definition as expectations and semantics
• Digital Art - Wikipedia
  A Linking Cornicopia of Digital Art Related Topics
• Article: Life - ‘Original prints’ makes quality art affordable
  Though article is more on lines of giclee - good intro discussion

Part 2 of Digital Confusion and Song Celebration

Bottles In the Kitchen - 1 more manipulation to photo

This is part 2 of a series which starts below or at this link. There are two subjects - first the different kinds of meaning around the digital medium and second, since I am focused on a particular image - the song which it relates to. 

The above photo has 2 manipulations done to it to create the look of a painting.  In this case it was simple and took very little time and voila - painting or is it?  The second filter is a crosshatch.  I actually think the image is kind of interesting - despite what I know to be done mostly by the computer.

I try to have the attitude of being open to anything which allows people to be more creative - the auto bass line of a keyboard - or the instant painting effects of photoshop.

But as an artist I don’t want people to think that my work - not what you see above - is generated by the computer.  The computer provides gradients and textures for me to work with and some tools - such as cutting and pasting, resizing, moving, tinting etc,  when I choose to use them.

But in the digital paintings I do - I start from a clean canvas - and the color and form is my adding - the computer program and the archival inks provide the new medium.

See Also

• Graphics.com: The Shared Resource for Creative Design
  Discussion about using Photoshop Crosshatch Filter
• Computer-generated Art - Wikipedia
  Definition and other variations on this and other digital art

Digital, Computer, Painting, Giclee

Irrigate 1 - Mouse Painting - 2004

Stepping back a bit, it seems to me I have never quite accurately come up with a name for what I do. I have been using the term "digital painting" because the painting is both stored digitally and created on a computer.

However, even I would wonder by such a term whether the artist was starting with a digital photograph. Digital encompasses a very large world. The work I do starts with a blank page and I am not using photos.

"Computer art" or even moreso "computer generated art" implies the computer is doing the work. The computer provides some of the palette and some of the painting tools, but doesn’t generate anything.

As you can see from above, I kind of like "mouse painting", but my guess is that this term is even more obscure.

Truth is - I see this medium as an alternative in all sorts of ways - but particularly love the fact that every print is an original as intended and that the work does not have to be transferred to be rendered.

See Also

• Digital Painting - Wikipedia
  Quick definition and delineation
• Digital Art - Wikipedia
  Further explanation and delineation
• Introduction to digital drawing and painting
  quick intro to using photoshop for such application
• LompocRecord.com
  In last week’s news - Point of my contention -”photo-based digital painting”