May 18th, 2006 by admin
Second level of completion gives better idea where piece is headed
Unfinished digital painting - Grandeur 2 - Dan Beck
Like the previous article, I am sharing a piece before it has been finished. Unlike the first offering, I do know the outcome today and perhaps you will also.
The program I use has a color fill tool - most do. Because I had stretched in outlines, it was generally pretty easy to fill between the lines and create a second level of completion to the piece.
I chose a mix between gradients and personalized textures - ones which I adjusted manually or pulled from a section of a previous painting. I can paint using sections of my own painting - a startling realization - which gives me a never ending palette - but like most tools can be easily overused.
So far my steps seem rather obvious. You can not develop a piece without the basic composition and without the basic color scheme. I don’t have a mystical way of doing things, but where I choose to go from here is what makes things more interesting to me -
because the process of art is one of going down any number of possible paths.
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- Process
First piece to be painted by using a section of piece as paint
- Apple - Appleworks Tips
Doesn’t even touch the capabilities of creating palettes with this program - not sure they know
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February 21st, 2006 by admin
Digital Medium, Gradients, Washes, Texture, Material
Afternoon Overlap - Digital Painting - 2005 - Landscape Art Gallery
This particular piece was successful because of the feeling it invokes - well at least in me. The overlapping of color is quite characteristic of the type of thing one can do using the digital medium. Not to say with washes, one can’t do similar things on canvas or directly on paper- but the gradients and transparencies overlap nicely using the computer.
This is actually one of the things I particularly like about using this medium. I have discussed the overlapping gradients at another time in this blog and will undoubtedly continue to do so.
It is one of the backbones of my painting technique and this particular piece shows it off.
The other thing I like in particular about this piece is how warm the texture makes it all feel. It is almost like the hills are made of material. And that is indeed how this particular view of the different colored lettuces growing on the overlapping fields made me feel. The mountains from this particular vantage point were all you could see behind the hills.
Though my approach is once again not all that literal - it does manage to capture what I experienced and create an image which I feel is also pleasing in itself.
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