Digital Meanings
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
