Developing Digital Art Control
observing the flow
Kitties - digital art - painting - Dan Beck 2003
Over the weekend, we held a giant yard sale in which I sold a few experimentally framed and matted pieces along with every other odd and ends thing under the sun. This particular piece was one I sold.
I have been too busy trying to move to be able to blog, but thought I could take a few minutes today - to share this piece. This digital painting was and is about pushing the limits.
I didn’t even know I could paint cats on the computer when I tackled this piece. Perspective was not as much of a concern as making the cats look cat like.
Even to this day, one of the things I actually like is that the medium is still not completely under my control. There are both happy accidents as well as a rather loose control over much of the ways I impart color and form. I can do things I couldn’t do with conventional paint and brush, but my control is not nearly as developed.
The skill is more about learning how to observe and duplicate playing with the medium. The freedom to let go and make mistakes is also the freedom to control the uncontrollable.
See Also
- Kitties - availability of original prints for the above digital art painting
- Slow Leadership: Getting comfortable with control - related by the notion of controlling the uncontrollable - seemed like sound advice though not so much about what I was referring - learning through observation
